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Article #386Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
From: Robert Hyatt
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56
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In article <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes: >In article <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com>, jim@canopus.meiko.co.uk (James Cownie) writes: >|> In article <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >|> |> >|> |> >|> |> What a silly question. >|> |> >|> |> Blinking lights. Lots and lots of blinking lights. well, if one >|> |> buys a massively parallel supercomputer, one gets blinking lights. >|> >|> You have the wrong technical term here. Those aren't blinking lights, >|> they're the "Front panel visualization tool" (Page 6 Intel Paragon >|> Supercomputer glossy : order no 203/6/92/10K/GA) >|> >|> -- >|> James Cownie >|> Meiko Limited >|> 650 Aztec West >|> Bristol BS12 4SD >|> England >|> >|> Phone : +44 454 616171 >|> FAX : +44 454 618188 >|> E-Mail: jim@meiko.co.uk or jim@meiko.com >Actually, the "Front panel visualization tool" is a tool that lets you see >the blinking lights from a workstation. I don't know what name they give >the lights themselves. They probably call them the Blinkium. > >Sam Probably use German: Das Blinkenlightens -- !Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences ! !hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!nntp.msstate.edu!willis1.cis.uab.edu!hyatt From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt) Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer? Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175603.1760@cis.uab.edu> Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham References: <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com> <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56:03 GMT Lines: 40