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