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From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: New supercomputer
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young@cs.widener.edu (Rob Young) writes: 
>	Did anyone catch the segment on CNBC (I think formerly FNN) on
>	television Saturday morning?  Caught the tail-end of a story
>	about Intel's new Supercomputer. THE "Worlds fastest" super
>	computer.  What speeds are we talking about as compared to
>	the connection machine etc?  It is a 512 processor machine
>	, a DARPA collaboration of 12 Universities . . . Anyone have
>	more details??  Thanks.

There was an article in yesterday's (Saturday's) Columbus Dispatch.
It showed a photo of Intel's head hardware engineer doing some last
minute tinkering on it before it was to be unveiled at some meeting.
I don't have the paper with me, but I do remember that the computer
could do well over 8 BILLION instructions per second.  That's over 
1000 times as fast as my 386-33!