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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: 6th List of the world's most powerful computing sites NOT
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 02:03:22 GMT
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- In article <417@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
- (Toon Moene) writes:
- >> ? MFLOPS - (21-DEC-1992)
- >> NCAR, United States of America.
- > ^^^^ National Centre for Atmospheric Research
- >> 1) Cray 3 (?)
- >
- >Makes you wonder what they do in Livermore :-)
-
- Can't see what NCAR and LLNL are doing at the same paragraph.
-
- Read:
- Star Warriors by William Broad.
- [old, obsolete]
-
- I think the physical science stuff is far more interesting than
- some of their computing stuff (pardon my friends who work there).
- Bill Gosper pointed out the grottiness of physicist code ;^).
- Too bad you can't easily take a tour. I have a 4 inch sabot from
- the last tour milled at the High Explosives Applications Facility as a
- paper weight. The defunct mirror fusion facility is interesting as are
- the Nova Lasers. They produced a nice 40 year ann. from founding booklet
- which you might be able to write for copies to LLNL.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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