Small potatoes... Intel made a 1.2 Terraflops machine about 6 months
ago... The US government isn't so worried about nuclear test bans,
because they can model nuclear explosions on their computers now.

Steve


Eric Freeman wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote in message <36CB1081.95E930BD@pacbell.net>...
> >
> >Concerning the Cray Y-MP * Is this the model number for the latest
> incarnation
> >of the Cray line ? I think I heard recently that the original company that
> >founded the Cray computer line disolved and was bought by a recognized
> computer manufacturer. The
> >current methods of manufacturing this last model are so far
> >removed from the original design and purpose that the "Cray" name on the
> outside
> >of the box is more for name recognition than any real relationship to it's
> >former self.
> >
> >Is this - True ?
> > Or
> >Is this - False ?
> >
> >--
> >Ken Tyler
> 
> Beats me.  I looked in the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records for fastest
> computer and it lists the Cray Y-MP C-90.  But then again, it lists the 300
> MHz Alpha as the fastest CPU, so who knows what's fastest today.  The
> supercomputing speed record went to 2 linked Intel Paragon
> parallel-processing machines with a total of 6768 processors, which achieved
> 328 gigaflops.  Anybody up to porting POV to that machine???
> 
> Eric
> 
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> "Back in the days when I was a Marxist, my primary concern was that ordinary
> people deserved better and that elites were walking all over them. That is
> still my primary concern, but the passing decades have taught me that
> political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the
> market elites could ever get away with doing."  --    Thomas Sowell.
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