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From: sstl!will@uunet.UU.NET (William Pickles)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: New i860 parallel machine
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Date: 22 Apr 91 14:51:12 GMT
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zenith@ensmp.fr (Steven Ericsson Zenith) writes:

>Comp.parallel's been a bit boring lately, so come on guy's. Building a
>parallel supercomputer today out of off the shelf parts has got to be
>real easy (given the time and money). Hasn't it? How about candidates

... for a real programming model for this type of machine. Any fool can
build it but the article in Decembers Scientific American shows that most
supercomputers end up running two orders of magnitude slower than their
build speed. Programming for consistent speed is not easy

WIlliam Pickles


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