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From: husmann@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: lets talk supercomputer micro-archit - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 21:58:00 EDT
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uiuccsb!husmann    Apr 30 20:58:00 1984

A person from NEC gave a talk here about their >1 gigaflop machine.  The
machine had 16 pipeline units.  The machine did get a gigaflop if all 16
units were operating, but I doubt if a real program exists which has enough
computation in parallel to sustain 16 pipeline units for any length of time.
I certainly haven't seen anything to indicate they know more than Cray about
supercomputing.


Harlan Husmann
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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