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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 20 Gflop NEC machine
Keywords: Vector supercomputer NEC
Message-ID: <3216@eos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 19:13:31 GMT
References: <14173@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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Yes, this is what I am fishing for.
We were given a brochure, it has a completely separate brochure on
SX- Unix.  The machine sounds impressive.  I will learn more later in
this week.  It is a vector, shared memory multiprocessor.  It is
faster than the rumored Datamation article.  People in CRI also were
give the brochure, so they know about it as well.  There are a variety
of open questions about the nature of the architecture (there is a photo
BTW, just a bunch of boxes in asymmetric pattern), but it is a multiprocessor
(like the VP-2600, only more powerful).  They have "all the right
buzzwords." TCP, X support, vectors, (oh vectorizing C), FO[ARTN]*, etc.
I don't know which Government agencies are going to get "forced" into
buying this machine, it won't be us, we don't get "forced," but we would
certainly like to know who.

Another gross generalization from

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