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Article #1330Re: New supercomputer
From: Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 18:58
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 18:58
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In article <1386@ssdintel.isc.intel.com> hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays) writes: >it's 32 GigaFlops + 17 billion integer IPS, for a total of 49 GIPS, which >is > 6000 times faster than the 386-33. I don't think it is fair to make such comparison. Can you mention an application that runs routinely both in the 386-33 and in the Delta? Applications that benefit from being run in supercomputers are never run in a PC (be it 386-33 or not), since the PC does not have similar memory or I/O resources. It is irrelevant to say that your LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet would recalculate 3000 or 6000 times faster since it would not be noticeable beyond 10 or 20 times faster, because the spreadsheet is not big enough to even tax the abilities or the new 386-33 or 486 based PCs in any business or home application, while in engineering or the sciences serious researchers use RISC based workstations. RAUL IZAHI izahi@nova.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!izahi From: izahi@leland.Stanford.EDU (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: New supercomputer Message-ID: <1991Jun5.185850.988@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 91 18:58:50 GMT References: <1991Jun2.153238.24866@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1382@ssdintel.isc.intel.com> <1386@ssdintel.isc.intel.com> Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 18