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From: kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga DSP
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Date: 15 Mar 90 19:02:24 GMT
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   < -- Scientific Visualization often requires a CRAY.  How many people
   <would settle for 1/2 a CRAY all to themselves at this price instead of
   <millions of dollars for a CRAY that they have to share with other
   <researchers?

   A nice thought, but it's not fair to call even two DSP32Cs half a Cray:

	   We're single precision
	   We have less I/O bandwidth through the system

->	   Crays can compute in the GigaFLOPS range
not typically.

Depends on what Cray.  A multiple-headed Y/MP can get close (still can't
beat my Connection Machine, though), but the cray X-MP gets one or two
hundred MFlops, and the cray 1 got only about 50 or 60.

sorry, I know this isn't comp.sys.supercomputers, but I can't resist the
opportunity to cray-bash :-).