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- From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
- Subject: Re: Old Prediction from 1988
- References: <1992Nov13.152301.20527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:41:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.152301.20527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
- |>
- |> "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.
- |>
- |> I also noted in this issue that the Cray-3 was "due to be released in 1989."
- |>
- |> 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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- |> "It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once." David Hume
- |> ||| clc5q@virginia.edu (Clark L. Coleman)
- I think Steve Chen should concentrate on getting his system to run before he
- starts benchmarking it.
-
- Sam
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