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Article #281Re: Old Prediction from 1988
From: Samuel A. Fineberg
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:41
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:41
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In article <1992Nov13.152301.20527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes: |> |> "Five years from now, we should be at 100 billion gigaFLOPS. A problem that |> takes three months to do now, we want to do in a day." |> -- Steve Chen, Time magazine article, March 28, 1988, page 58. |> |> I also noted in this issue that the Cray-3 was "due to be released in 1989." |> |> 100 billion gigaFLOPS is 100 million teraFLOPS, which sounds very fast to |> me. "Five years from now" is coming up in a few months. 100 billion GFLOPS |> sounds ambitious. |> |> -- |> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> "It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once." David Hume |> ||| clc5q@virginia.edu (Clark L. Coleman) I think Steve Chen should concentrate on getting his system to run before he starts benchmarking it. Sam
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!win31.nas.nasa.gov!fineberg From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg) Subject: Re: Old Prediction from 1988 References: <1992Nov13.152301.20527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:41:35 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov13.174135.20985@nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov Lines: 20