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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
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Subject: linpack
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Date: 18 Oct 89 08:23:46 GMT
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In article <9079@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> kahn@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu writes:

>Throw away ALL your copies of the LINPACK 100x100 benchmark if you
>are interested in supercomputers.  The 300x300 is barely big enough

Danny Sorenson mentioned recently that linpack is sort of intended
to show how *bad* a computer can be.  The sizes are kept
deliberately small so that the vector machines barely have a chance
to get rolling.

So, big if you're optimistic; small otherwise.

Preston Briggs