Xref: utzoo talk.politics.misc:40934 comp.sys.misc:2627 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Supercomputers, Intel Strikes Back Message-ID: <1555@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Jan 90 12:11:54 GMT References: <490.25aaf86a@zodiac.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Followup-To: talk.politics.misc Organization: LFCS Enya Admiration Society Lines: 18 In-reply-to: haramoto@zodiac.rutgers.edu In article <490.25aaf86a@zodiac.rutgers.edu>, haramoto@zodiac writes: > The machine is part of Intel's attempt to position itself in a growing >market for extremely high-speed computers among businesses that, until >now, could only afford to rent time at high prices on ohters' supercomputers. >The iPSC/860 would typically be tied together with other office computers >to handle tasks, such as huge numbers of calculations, that conventional >machines can't do quickly ...as long as you don't need to address more than 640K of memory. (sorry, couldn't resist!) Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "...all these moments... will be lost in time... like tears in rain."