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From: Bryan M. Minor
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:43

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I have the opportunity to use three different Silicon Graphics machines:

    4D/320, 4D/440, 4D/480

Supposedly the 320 has 2 R3000 processors, the 440 has 4 R4000 processors,
and the 480 has 8 processors.  What I am interested in knowing is how fast
are these machines compared to a Sun SPARC 2 with 32 Mb, and is trying to
program parallel codes on them worthwhile.  Are they MIMD or SIMD Parrallel
machines?  If you are going to program on them, what language is best,
ie. C/C++ or Fortran 90.  I really want to get into parallel programing
and my current research project seems to lend itself to it.  Are these good
machines for getting exposed to parallel programing?  Thanks alot for your
time!

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