Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!turner From: turner@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Steve Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: Losing ETA Technology Message-ID: Date: 4 May 90 17:52:20 GMT References: <201@csinc.UUCP> <253@garth.UUCP> <202@csinc.UUCP> <9148@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <38486@mips.mips.COM> <48598@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: turner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu Distribution: na Organization: Center for Supercomputing R&D Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov's message of 3 May 90 22:43:37 GMT In article <48598@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes: > interesting to note that the ETA 10-G *still* has the world's Linpack > N=100 Fortran speed record, at 93 MFLOPS. > > Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-9, UUCP ames!lamaster > NASA Ames Research Center ARPA lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov > Moffett Field, CA 94035 > Phone: (415)604-6117 I assume that you mean the *single processor* record, since the list that Dongarra publiished in the latest CAN shows the 8 processor YMP turning in 200 MFLOPS. Not to take anything away from the admittedly amazing ETA numbers. As a side note, I was quite happy to see that Cray and ETA between them took *all* of the top slots (about 10, wish I had my copy here...) The threat from the new Japanese machines may have been exagerated. (at least until the SX-3 comes out). -- Steve Turner (on the Si prairie - UIUC CSRD) ARPANET: turner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uicsrd!turner I went walking in the wasted city / Started thinking about entropy Smelled the wind from the ruined river / Went home to watch TV -- Warren Zevon