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Article #22Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction
From: Jason W Solinsky
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:25
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:25
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In article <153j3gINN86a@early-bird.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes: |> In article <1992Jul28.125822.17675@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes: |> |> Without getting rid of any facts about the computer or directions of the company |> |> this should be rewritten as: |> |> |> |> After experimenting with several parallel technologies, Fujitsu has build a |> |> 300 GFLOP machine with hundreds of processors. |> |> |> |> The end. |> |> Apparently the hundreds of lines of marketeers' language did its job. They |> have fooled you. |> Actually, they say they are *developing* such a system. They didn't say |> they *have built* it yet. Scheduled for later this year, but they |> don't say whether that is the 300-GFLOPS system or a smaller one. Actually I didn't pay attention to that part because I know the USA will make sure that its laws (both written and in the works) prevent its profitable sale in the US. I'm not unhappy about that, BTW. In fact I rather like it, but its the primary consideration when talking about a Japanese supercomputer. Jason W. Solinsky
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!solman From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing Message-ID: <1992Jul28.152513.27457@athena.mit.edu> Date: 28 Jul 92 15:25:13 GMT References: <Bs274H.BA5@news.fai.com> <1992Jul28.125822.17675@athena.mit.edu> <153j3gINN86a@early-bird.think.com> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: comp.sys.super Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: m37-318-4.mit.edu