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From: hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
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Subject: Re: New supercomputer
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Date: 4 Jun 91 21:58:16 GMT
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In article <1382@ssdintel.isc.intel.com>, hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays) writes:
[about the Delta Touchstone system]
|> 8.6 GigaFLOPS + 17 billion integer instructions per second,
|> so it's actually more like 2000 - 3000 times faster than your 386-33.

Oops - that's what I get for posting early Sunday.

it's 32 GigaFlops + 17 billion integer IPS, for a total of 49 GIPS, which
is > 6000 times faster than the 386-33.

Of course, those are peak rates, guaranteed-not-to-exceed.

-- 
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