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1 posted on 08/05/2002 11:39:20 AM PDT by USA21
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2 posted on 08/05/2002 11:44:09 AM PDT by maestro
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There are multiple ways to buid great computing machines. And the HAMMER is coming!

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4 posted on 08/05/2002 11:55:57 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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...vice president of high performance computing at IBM, which sells supercomputers to foreign nuclear governments...

This strikes me as a rather awkward turn of phrase.

5 posted on 08/05/2002 11:56:27 AM PDT by Infoseeker
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35.9 trillion calculations a second with

This is 35 Tera FLOPS no? Anybody know? The last I heard they were only at 2 Tera FLOPS. Does anybody know how much processing power the human brain has? I was under the impression that it was also measure in Tera FLOPS- it makes me wonder how far away they are.

6 posted on 08/05/2002 12:06:19 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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Supercomputers are built with thousands of processors...

They would have to fit on one hell of a motherboard.

12 posted on 08/05/2002 12:55:00 PM PDT by Genesis defender
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