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In article <1992Nov12.131856.12605@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
 > In article <1992Nov10.153705.27804@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) writes:
 > :>I measure the run time of my algorithms in MIPS-YEARS.  A MIPS-YEAR
 > :>is a 1 MIPS machine running for 1 year, or approximately 3.1 x 10^13
 > :>instructions.  Jobs that take several hundred MIPS-YEARS are not uncommon.
 > :
 > :Bad guess, unless Crays, 3090s (Yes, I know they barely count) and
 > :a bit of CM-2 don't count.
 >  
 > Several hundred MIPS-YEARS is a Cray running for a whole year or two. What jobs
 > have you run on Cray-class computers that take a whole year? 
 > 
Not a whole year.  But one program I was involved in used one CPU-month on
a Cyber 205.  I had taken two weeks to optimize it beyond recognition.  And
it was still correct (it found some hardware bugs).  And indeed speed was
the most important.
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