Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!bionet!ig!heinrich.ig.com!dow From: dow@heinrich.ig.com (Christopher Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: 66 MFLOPS ?!!! Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 90 15:57:04 GMT References: <27122.9003231448@prg.oxford.ac.uk> Sender: news@presto.ig.com Reply-To: dow@heinrich.ig.com (Christopher Dow) Organization: IntelliGenetics, Inc. Lines: 21 > > Fellow netters, > > I saw an ad in BYTE latest issue for an i860 board for PC's > claiming not a flop less than 66 MFLOPS "peak performance". > Is that possible ? > Has anyone run any kind of real world application on > this chip, to assess actual performance ? If you are reffering to Mercury Systems or Sky computer, then yes, I do beleive it is possible. We currently have a tape at Mercury and they are going to send back a few data points on how our software works with their board. I'll post some of the results. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Chris Dow | IntelliGenetics | | Software Engineer | 700 East El Camino Real | | "My opinions are mine not theirs--->" | Mountain View, Ca. 94040 | | AisA | (415) 962-7320 | | | dow@presto.ig.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+