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From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Fastest Computer
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Date: 29 Oct 90 13:38:53 GMT
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In article <11152@hubcap.clemson.edu> boulder!sashimi!weverka@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Robert T. Weverka) writes:
  >I am seeking the most flattering statitistics that any parallel computing 
  >machine can brag of.  This is for comparison to analogue signal
  >processors.  Examples of fast machines in other technologies are welcome.


My favorite "peak" performance number is this:  the digital
processors onboard the General Dynamics F16 aircraft have a
computational power of 1.0 unstable-airframes-kept-flying.
There is no analogue processor that even remotely approaches
this processing speed.
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