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From: lerici@super.ORG (Peter W. Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: Discussion on whether distributed networks are super
Keywords: the network is the computer
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Date: 4 Jun 90 21:02:18 GMT
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In article <6485@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>Peter Brewer of the SRC makes a good point.
>I've not tried to say whether loosely coupled distributed networks
>constitute supercomputers.
>
>But I think for purposes of discussion, supers are confind to "one box"
>be it a 2 foot high octogon or a aircraft carrier sized build
>(Cray machine to Smith machine).  A different newsgroup can be used for
>loosely coupled distributed computing.
>
>
>--e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
>  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
I note in passing that someone claims an olympic record of 12.5 GFlops..
must have been thinking of Mark Spitz I think the CM-2 achieved 16GFlops.
I offer lunch/dinner to the first to achieve 1/4 TeraFlop. Whether it be
the Burton Box, the SuperScary CM-X (Watch that X-factor you CRI stock
holders), or maybe Steve Chen.. 

Wouldn't be great to have a Cray2 whose foreground processor was a front end
to the CM-2 fully loaded? Maybe more than one? And wouldn't it be great if
the CRI/CM CEs were Kathleen Turner twins? And wouldn't it be great if they\
brought beer and it was TeraFlop beer made in Colorado Springs ???

-- Peter

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