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In article <1992Aug12.171629.2858@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
>What I found amusing in Bell's article was the claims that KSR had proven
>that its architecture was scalable to 1088 nodes.  At a talk I heard they
>had never tried constructing a machine with more than 128 nodes, and have
>little experinece with machines larger than 64 nodes.  Thats a long way
>from 1088.  It reminds me of the claims TMC has made about the CM5's
>scalability to 16K nodes.

In general, the hype in the MPP field is thick enough to cut with a
knife.  Unfortunately, many large organizations are getting swept up by it and
are basing purchasing decisions on it.  The result could well be that time on
supercomputers capable of addressing the needs of the bulk of current users
may be hard to come by in a few years.  Should be good news for the
workstation manufacturers and people who are selling workstation networking
software (along those lines, there was an interesting article in Monday or
Tuesday's Wall Street Journal about people abondoning supercomputers in favor
of networked workstations). 

John





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