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Article #20770Re: 20 Gflop NEC machine
From: Eugene Miya
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 19:13
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 19:13
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Yes, this is what I am fishing for. We were given a brochure, it has a completely separate brochure on SX- Unix. The machine sounds impressive. I will learn more later in this week. It is a vector, shared memory multiprocessor. It is faster than the rumored Datamation article. People in CRI also were give the brochure, so they know about it as well. There are a variety of open questions about the nature of the architecture (there is a photo BTW, just a bunch of boxes in asymmetric pattern), but it is a multiprocessor (like the VP-2600, only more powerful). They have "all the right buzzwords." TCP, X support, vectors, (oh vectorizing C), FO[ARTN]*, etc. I don't know which Government agencies are going to get "forced" into buying this machine, it won't be us, we don't get "forced," but we would certainly like to know who. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." Live free or die.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 20 Gflop NEC machine Keywords: Vector supercomputer NEC Message-ID: <3216@eos.UUCP> Date: 15 Apr 89 19:13:31 GMT References: <14173@duke.cs.duke.edu> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 20