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Article #334Re: How you define a supercomputer ?
From: Jim Armstrong
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 23:45
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 23:45
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In article <377@nic.cerf.net> benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu (Booker Bense) writes: >>>How you define a supercomputer ? ( >100 MIPS ???) >>You have to ask the United States Department of Commerce. > >- I think this list should just about cover it %-)! My favorite two definitions: The fastest machine $5 million can buy. Any machine faster than IBM's top mainframe. Or how about: A machine that can complete an infinite loop in < 10 seconds. :^) :^) :^) :^) -- Jim Armstrong "The nonpayment and subsequent abuse of armstron@cs.arizona.edu socially powerless athletes is simply a uunet!arizona!armstron form of modern-day slavery" --Rick Telander
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!noao!arizona!armstron From: armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: How you define a supercomputer ? Message-ID: <1511@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 14 May 91 23:45:09 GMT References: <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.051215.8101@nas.nasa.gov> <377@nic.cerf.net> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 22