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- From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu Unvells Ultra High Speed Supercomputer
- Message-ID: <d#wnc3_@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:27:41 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <BuCBop.E83@news.fai.com>
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- >(San Jose, CA September 9, 1992) -- Fujitsu Limited today
- >announced that it has developed and will begin marketing
- >worldwide a new supercomputer capable of delivering unprecedented
- >peak performance of 355 gigaflops (355 billion floating point
- >operations per second) with only 222 processors -- a single
- >processor performance level ten times greater than any parallel
- >system available today. The new system, called the VPP500 vector
- >parallel processor, will be available for commercial shipment in
- >September of 1993.
-
- This paragraph has me puzzled. This system has 222 processors, so
- in what sense is it a single prcocessor ("-- a single processor
- performance level ten times greater...") ? In either case, this
- peak performance with 222 processors is about half of a Cray C-90,
- which only has 16 processors. So I am missing something?
-
- John
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- Dr. John K. Prentice
- Partner, Quetzal Computational Associates
- 3200 Carlisle N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87110-1664; 505-889-4543
- john@aquarius.unm.edu -or- jkprent@cs.sandia.gov -or- prentice@rufous.cs.unm.edu
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