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From: armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: How you define a supercomputer ?
Message-ID: <1511@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 23:45:09 GMT
References: <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.051215.8101@nas.nasa.gov> <377@nic.cerf.net>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <377@nic.cerf.net> benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu (Booker Bense) writes:
>>>How you define a supercomputer ? ( >100 MIPS ???)
>>You have to ask the United States Department of Commerce.
>
>- I think this list should just about cover it %-)!

My favorite two definitions:

	The fastest machine $5 million can buy.
	Any machine faster than IBM's top mainframe.

Or how about:

	A machine that can complete an infinite loop in < 10 seconds.

:^) :^) :^) :^)


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