Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!orville!fouts From: fouts@orville (Marty Fouts) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways? Message-ID: <2410@ames.arpa> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 12:16:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.2410 Posted: Mon Jul 27 12:16:27 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 03:02:31 EDT References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.arpa Reply-To: fouts@orville.UUCP (Marty Fouts) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA Lines: 10 Keywords: vector Cray Cyber CDC Cpu Supercomputers Actually, any vendor who has a machine which can reach a flop rating within an order of magnitude (you pick the base ;-) of the currently believed to be fastest speed will call his machine a supercomputer. I have seen advertisements for massively parallel supercomputers recently, which achieve the "not to be exceeded" rating via >> 1 slow processor. What is in a name is that a rose is much easier to sell than a pansy, so makes more money (:-(