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- From: clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
- Subject: Old Prediction from 1988
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.152301.20527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Originator: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU
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- Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:23:01 GMT
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- "Five years from now, we should be at 100 billion gigaFLOPS. A problem that
- takes three months to do now, we want to do in a day."
- -- Steve Chen, Time magazine article, March 28, 1988, page 58.
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- I also noted in this issue that the Cray-3 was "due to be released in 1989."
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- 100 billion gigaFLOPS is 100 million teraFLOPS, which sounds very fast to
- me. "Five years from now" is coming up in a few months. 100 billion GFLOPS
- sounds ambitious.
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