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In article <6080@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk
(Geoff Lane) writes:
>MIPs aren't the problem - I/O and memory access is the problem.  Any old 
>fool can plug together a bunch of Intel CPU chips and claim that the 
>resulting box is faster than a Cray (usually the model isn't specified :-) 
>but it takes an expert to get the bus architecture correct.  It's also damn 
>expensive.

Sort of.
Some would say you buy "balance."  My old officemate George came up with this
nice concept of how you think of this:

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                Language

It is the icon for the Conferences on High-Speed Computing
which has some characteristics to Amdahl's Other Law (remote).
Gets you out of binary thinking.
There is an argument in another group and mailing list right now about
a slight against software inproving performance.
We hash on 3-D versions, but here is my "improved" 2-D version:

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            d /i         .e        g\ w
             /n          .r          \ 
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               A p p l i c a t i o n

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