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From: dprcxm@marais.ARCO.COM (Chuck Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: Supercomputer conferences
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.140913.1238@Arco.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:09:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.172633.5978@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jun24.172633.5978@nas.nasa.gov>, eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
> The Conference just held in Santa Clara was dull.
> I would hope that most companies in attendence didn't lose money.
> 

I got a lot out of this conference.  Good presentations by users from
industry, a lot of equipment in a small area, plenty of lively
discussions on parallel processing.

I was especially encouraged by the progress in mass storage systems.
We need Terabytes near-line with 10 MB/s transfer rates,
100 Gbytes on-line with 100 MB/s rates. Products are now showing up 
that can deliver these rates.

The panel discussion featuring top executives from Cray, Convex, Intel,
and NCube was especially illuminating.  Everybody's talking MPP.
Good news for us users.  

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