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From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fastest Fortran Engine?
Message-ID: <10889@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Jun 88 21:35:44 GMT
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In article <7568@boring.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>Further: NEC SX (not IBM compatible) 128 or 256, depending on model,
>with vector registers, like the Cray.  This is the fastest supercomputer
>in the world.

According to the latest linpack benchmark, the Cray Y-MP, ETA-10E, and
Cray X-MP with the latest compiler (CFT77 2.1) are, generally, faster
single processors than the NEC SX-2, although the SX-2 wins the single
processor matrix vector contest (anyone know why - I don't know 
the SX-2 architecture)


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