Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!well!rchrd
From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
Message-ID: <3636@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 12:51:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3636
Posted: Mon Jul 27 12:51:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 07:32:02 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <363@astroatc.UUCP> <8344@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 21

The best supercomputers are fast scalar machines first, with vector
processing hardware for additional speedup.  Machines like the Cray X-MP
have a vector-to-scalar speedup factor of about 10.  But their scalar
performance is faster than any conventional machine.  

Everyone should also be aware of the SX-2 from NEC, handled here in the
US by Honeywell.  The SX-2 is the fastest machine today.  Beats the
Cray X-MP and Cray-2.  It has a 6 nanosecond clock (X-MP=8).
The claim 1300 megaflops (1.3 billion flops).
  
I think we will be hearing more from this machine!  There is one
now in Houston at the Houston Advanced Research Center.


...Richard Friedman [rchrd] Pacific-Sierra Research (Berkeley)                         
uucp:  {ucbvax,lll-lcc,ptsfa,hplabs}!well!rchrd
- or -   rchrd@well.uucp
-- 
...Richard Friedman [rchrd]                         
uucp:  {ucbvax,lll-lcc,ptsfa,hplabs}!well!rchrd
- or -   rchrd@well.uucp