Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!bloepfe From: bloepfe@ethz.UUCP (Bruno Loepfe) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: LINPACK 1000x1000 MFLOPS per $$$ Message-ID: <5180@ethz.UUCP> Date: 19 Jul 90 09:49:07 GMT References: Reply-To: bloepfe@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (Bruno Loepfe) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 25 In article mccalpin@pereland.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: >Stardent has recently been running an advertisement in Supercomputing >Review which uses the measure of LINPACK 1000x1000 MFLOPS per Dollar >to evaluate several computers --- specifically the IBM 3090/180VF, the >Alliant FX/80, the SGI 4D/240, and the Stardent 3040. > > [chart deleted] > >Those of you who are long-term readers of this group will know that I >have never been too supportive of Eugene Brooks "Attack of the Killer >Micros" thesis. I am now. > If you do this kind of calculations, it turns out, that a BYCICLE gives you the most mph per $$$. How does it come, that nevertheless (almost) everybody drives a CAR ? This fact makes me think, that some other arguments have to be considered as well, i.e. it's probably not feasible to watch the "real world" through a filter "$$$ per " only, where is your favorite attribute of a computer (or anything else)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruno Loepfe u36@czheth5a.bitnet Computing Center loepfe@rz.id.ethz.ch Federal Institute of Technology bloepfe@ethz.uucp Zuerich, Switzerland ..!uunet!mcsun!ethz!bloepfe (UUCP)