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Article #343Re: How you define a supercomputer ?
From: David Sielaff
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 03:46
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 03:46
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In article <1991May14.230507.8959@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sgombosi@isis.UUCP (Stephen O. Gombosi) writes: >In article <377@nic.cerf.net> benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu (Booker Bense) writes: >In article <1991May13.051215.8101@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >>In article <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> >>ury@mossad.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes: >>>How you define a supercomputer ? ( >100 MIPS ???) >> >>You have to ask the United States Department of Commerce. >> >My favorite definition (courtesy of John Levesque, Pacific-Sierra (I think)): > >supercomputer: a device for converting a cpu-bound problem into an I/O-bound > problem. > >-Steve I forgot where I got this definition (possibly from Neil Lincoln, ex-ETA, now at SSESCO): Supercomputer: Any computer which is just two orders of magnitude less powerful than what users really want. ;-) Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!timbuk!juniper09!ds From: ds@juniper09.cray.com (David Sielaff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: How you define a supercomputer ? Message-ID: <144146.17259@timbuk.cray.com> Date: 16 May 91 03:46:07 GMT References: <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.051215.8101@nas.nasa.gov> <377@nic.cerf.net> <1991May14.230507.8959@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN Lines: 23