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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov15.200933.16043@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 02:31:02 GMT
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- >solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >>what are they getting in addition to computational power?
- In article <1992Nov15.200933.16043@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- "Peter Beckman" <beckman@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >Simple: R&D, software, support, and lots of cool mugs, t-shirts,
- >highlighters, colorful posters, and slick glossies. -Pete
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- How about >32-bit addressing: multi GB file systems, real 30+ MB/S file reads,
- 50 MB/S communication, decent numeric FP precision and performance, etc.
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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