Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews.srv.cs.cmu.edu!wolfe From: wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Thinko announcement Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 17:00:27 GMT References: <16332@life.ai.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.084436.17855@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 8 Jun 91 08:44:36 GMT In article <1991Jun8.084436.17855@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes: Does each set of 32 processors have 1 FPU? Then each FPU would have to be running at 20 MFLOPS to attain 40Gigaflops ?!! -- This means a 100ns. Multiply-Accumulate on each node - sound quite reasonable for todays world.