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From: izahi@leland.Stanford.EDU (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: New supercomputer
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.185850.988@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:58:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.153238.24866@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1382@ssdintel.isc.intel.com> <1386@ssdintel.isc.intel.com>
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In article <1386@ssdintel.isc.intel.com> hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays) writes:
>it's 32 GigaFlops + 17 billion integer IPS, for a total of 49 GIPS, which
>is > 6000 times faster than the 386-33.

   I don't think it is fair to make such comparison.
   Can you mention an application that runs routinely both in the 386-33 and
in the Delta?
   Applications that benefit from being run in supercomputers are never run
in a PC (be it 386-33 or not), since the PC does not have similar memory or
I/O resources.
   It is irrelevant to say that your LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet would recalculate
3000 or 6000 times faster since it would not be noticeable beyond 10 or 20
times faster, because the spreadsheet is not big enough to even tax the 
abilities or the new 386-33 or 486 based PCs in any business or home 
application, while in engineering or the sciences serious researchers use 
RISC based workstations.
					RAUL IZAHI
					izahi@nova.stanford.edu