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From: les@uokmax.UUCP (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DARPA supercomputer
Message-ID: <2866@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 02:31:41 GMT
Reply-To: les@uokmax.UUCP (The Doctor)
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This 10in cube is not all that unfeasible. In the December '88 issue of
Electronics magazine there is an article on a speech Seymour Cray gave
about the Cray-3 due out last quarter this year. It clearly states that 
"The Cray-3 will pack all the circuitry for a full-blown 16-processor machine
with 4 gigabytes of main memory into less than a cubic foot of space." It also
goes on to state that it will be capable of "16 billion floating-point
operations/s". Yes, that is floating point ops not ops. It goes into more
detail about it, but the main issue is they are using GaAs chips which are
very miniaturized.


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