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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: YARC coprocessor(yet again)
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.091442.21510@amd.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 09:14:42 GMT
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In article <1990Jul27.212609.19980@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> deh7g@newton.acc.Virginia.EDU (David E. Husk) writes:
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|      We recently were able to try out a YARC NuSuper coprocessor
|board installed in a Mac II.  While we were at it we ran some 
|"real world" Fortran benchmarks -- programs which we consider 
|typical number-crunching applications.  We concluded the YARC 
|is a seriously fast machine, as you can see from our results, 
|given below.  Best of all, the YARC board is relatively 
|inexpensive.  

Sounds neat. What kind of processor does it use? :-)
(by the way, you can expect further improvements, of a
nature which will be revealed when appropriate, in the
future)

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