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- From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu Unvells Ultra High Speed Supercomputer
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 08:16:03 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <d#wnc3_@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
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- Sorry, I was confusing something when I wrote the comment about the
- speed of the C-90. It was a long day :-) .
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- John
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