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From: harris@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ray Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Oh, not again! Re: DARPA supercomputer
Message-ID: <4407@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 20:46:19 GMT
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In article <3210@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>In article <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) writes:
>>"Advanced Military Computing", a darpa director named Raymond Colladay is
>>quoted as claiming that DARPA plans to have a billion operation per second
>>supercomputer packaged in 10 cubic inches by next year.  I don't have
>>access to "Advanced Military Computing" so I can't say whether a
>>longer article appeared there.
>
>Ray Colladay is the acting DARPA head who used to sign my travel at NASA HQ.
>Are you sure it's not a cube "10 inches on a side?"  That is completely
>foreseeable.  SO WHAT?

From E.E. Times, April 17, 1989, article on DARPA's future emphasis:

"...,the agency has recently been able to redirect the program's goal to
development of so-called Teraops systems.  It's hoped to demonstrate such a
system by the mid-1990s, he [Colladay] said.
	Drawing on the same technologies, though with necessarily more
limited performance goals, Colladay said DARPA is also emphasizing embedded
systems, a project driven by such things as the needs of the future space
station and spacecraft, as well as underwater craft.
	The intention is to put a Gigaflops system into a module the size
of a soup can, Colladay said."

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