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From: mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus})
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Subject: 5 billion computations per second!!!
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Date: 25 Mar 91 23:49:47 GMT
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Was listening to National Public Radio earlier, and they had a little piece
on computers.  They mentioned some sort of tests run at Los Alamos something
or the other.  They said the fastest machine ran there was one made by 
Thinking Machines, Corporation, and turned in a result of 5 BILLION computations
per second. 

Now, since the news show is not all that technically knowledgable, I assumed he
meant 5000 MIPS , as opposed to 5000 different computations.

Does anyone have any more information on this??  What test were run?  What 
machine is it??  How much is it?  When can I get one? ;->

Rather dumbfounded by these results,
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