NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/super/1053

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From: [e-mail] (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
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Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:16:58 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (James Cownie) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> What a silly question.
|> |>
|> |> Blinking lights.  Lots and lots of blinking lights.   well, if one
|> |> buys a massively parallel supercomputer, one gets blinking lights.
|>
|> You have the wrong technical term here. Those aren't blinking lights,
|> they're the "Front panel visualization tool" (Page 6 Intel Paragon
|> Supercomputer glossy : order no 203/6/92/10K/GA)
|>
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|> James Cownie
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Actually, the "Front panel visualization tool" is a tool that lets you see
the blinking lights from a workstation.  I don't know what name they give
the lights themselves.  They probably call them the Blinkium.

Sam