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From: elias@wonton.TC.Cornell.EDU (Doug Elias)
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Subject: Re: Massively Parallel LINPACK on the Intel Touchstone Delta machine
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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:09:22 GMT
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i'd appreciate some rationale on
   "FLOPS is defined as  (2/3 N^3 + 2 N^2) / elapsed-time",
where, i assume, N == number of processors used in the computation.

Thanks,
doug
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