Re: How you define a supercomputer ?

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1 total messages Started by Andy Pippin <The Elf> Mon, 13 May 1991 18:13

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Author: Andy Pippin <The Elf>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 18:13

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~In article <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
~ury@mossad.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes:
~>How you define a supercomputer ? ( >100 MIPS ???)


Like, ya' know, then eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) says...
~
~You have to ask the United States Department of Commerce.


	Heh.  The division line for "Super" and "Not-so-super" has
	ceased to be a matter of instruction speed.  Last I heard,
	the dividing lines were:

		$1,000,000 <   Supers   <=  Sanity?
		$  100,000 < Mainframes <= $1,000,000
		$   10,000 <   Mini's   <= $  100,000
		$      300 <  Personal  <= $   10,000
		$       20 < Video Games<= $      300
		$        0 <  Doorstops <= $       20


	"Mainframes" is a very generic description.  That can, and usually
	does include "Super-mini's" as well.  

    aBp.

	(I'm not so positive about the last two ratings, but I the first
	four are correct according to the gossip that I've heard.)

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