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From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran follies
Summary: a small correction......
Message-ID: <2212@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 17:20:13 GMT
References: <5377@cup.portal.com> <2852@mmintl.UUCP> <1005@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <10757@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <10757@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
 
> IBM 3090 is 128 32-bit elements or 64 64-bit elements.
 Well, almost. In fact it is 128 either 16 registers of 32 bit elements or
 8 registers of 64 bit elements. 
  
> The Fujitsu VP-200 [also 50, 100, and 400] aka Amdahl 1200 is also
> 370-compatible and long vectors [not compat] have 65K length vectors
> closer to the 205/10s.  They were built and delivered years ago
> (82/3).  The VP line is the second most populous supercomputer in the
> world.
 That's an interesting statistic - but how many of those VP's are in 
Japanese universities ????  At the time we benchmarked the VP, there 
were very few VP's at unsusidized sites.  And do you consider the 3090
a "supercomputer" in this figure??  I find it hard to beleive that there
are more VP's out there than 3090/VF's (but I could be wrong)
(P.S. I'm not siding with 3090 over VP - we have both and there are pros
and cons to each)


 Scott Denham 
 Western Atlas International