Re: Fujitsu Unvells Ultra High Speed Supercomputer

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From: John Prentice
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:27

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>(San Jose, CA September 9, 1992) --  Fujitsu Limited today
>announced that it has developed and will begin marketing
>worldwide a new supercomputer capable of delivering unprecedented
>peak performance of 355 gigaflops (355 billion floating point
>operations per second) with only 222 processors -- a single
>processor performance level ten times greater than any parallel
>system available today.  The new system, called the VPP500 vector
>parallel processor, will be available for commercial shipment in
>September of 1993.

This paragraph has me puzzled.   This system has 222 processors, so
in what sense is it a single prcocessor ("-- a single processor
performance level ten times greater...") ?  In either case, this
peak performance with 222 processors is about half of a Cray C-90,
which only has 16 processors.  So I am missing something?

John
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Dr. John K. Prentice                      
Partner, Quetzal Computational Associates    
3200 Carlisle N.E., Albuquerque, NM   87110-1664; 505-889-4543
john@aquarius.unm.edu -or- jkprent@cs.sandia.gov -or- prentice@rufous.cs.unm.edu

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