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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction
- Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.152513.27457@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:25:13 GMT
- References: <Bs274H.BA5@news.fai.com> <1992Jul28.125822.17675@athena.mit.edu> <153j3gINN86a@early-bird.think.com>
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- In article <153j3gINN86a@early-bird.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul28.125822.17675@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- |> |> Without getting rid of any facts about the computer or directions of the company
- |> |> this should be rewritten as:
- |> |>
- |> |> After experimenting with several parallel technologies, Fujitsu has build a
- |> |> 300 GFLOP machine with hundreds of processors.
- |> |>
- |> |> The end.
- |>
- |> Apparently the hundreds of lines of marketeers' language did its job. They
- |> have fooled you.
- |> Actually, they say they are *developing* such a system. They didn't say
- |> they *have built* it yet. Scheduled for later this year, but they
- |> don't say whether that is the 300-GFLOPS system or a smaller one.
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- Actually I didn't pay attention to that part because I know the USA will
- make sure that its laws (both written and in the works) prevent its profitable
- sale in the US. I'm not unhappy about that, BTW. In fact I rather like it, but
- its the primary consideration when talking about a Japanese supercomputer.
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
-