Just a note, IBM's Pacific Blue posted 3.9 TerraFLOPs when running for Los Alamos
Labs.  and
I just saw a note about a computer that did 12 TerraOPs (4 bit intiger math NOT
Floating point).  Port POV to Pacific Blue and I think most scenes would render in
20 Minutes or less, even 'STRIKE' at 1024x768 AA3, Focal blur and all lights
converted to area lights!  It would be fun to watch it anyway.

Just my 2 cents......

Stephen Lavedas wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > "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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