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From: sgombosi@isis.cs.du.edu (Stephen O. Gombosi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: How you define a supercomputer ?
Message-ID: <1991May14.230507.8959@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 23:05:07 GMT
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In article <377@nic.cerf.net> benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu (Booker Bense) writes:
In article <1991May13.051215.8101@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>In article <1991May12.160205.9784@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
>ury@mossad.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes:
>>How you define a supercomputer ? ( >100 MIPS ???)
>
>You have to ask the United States Department of Commerce.
>
My favorite definition (courtesy of John Levesque, Pacific-Sierra (I think)):

supercomputer: a device for converting a cpu-bound problem into an I/O-bound
               problem.

-Steve