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From: hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: New supercomputer
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Date: 2 Jun 91 16:26:18 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.153238.24866@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:
|> 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!

8.6 GigaFLOPS + 17 billion integer instructions per second,
so it's actually more like 2000 - 3000 times faster than your 386-33.

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