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From: gkn@SDS.SDSC.EDU (Gerard K. Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Need benchmarking wisdom
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Date: 15 Mar 88 23:02:11 GMT
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	From:	 carl@CitHex.Caltech.Edu (Carl J Lydick)
	Subject: Re: Need benchmarking wisdom
	Date:	 Mon, 14 Mar 88 03:28:27 PST

	...  Now, put 4 physicists doing monte-carlo simulations on each of the machines.
	Since it's against the principles of a physicist to know anything about using a
	computer efficiently (I've been managing VAXen used by physicists for several
	years, so I speak from experience) ...

They don't do much better at designing networks, either.

gkn
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