At 3:56 PM -0700 2/13/98, John Clogg wrote:

>Wirt wrote:
>>What a difference a week can make. Today, IBM broke even those
>bounds. It
>>announced plans to start work on a 10,000 MHz processor.
>========================================================
>Wirt, the article you excerpted said IBM had contracted with DOE to build
>a supercomputer "capable of executing 10 trillion instructions per
>second".  This is definitely NOT the same thing as a 10,000 MHz
>processor!  First of all, a machine cycle is undoubtedly longer than one
>clock pulse.  Secondly, we don't know whether the processor under
>development will complete one instruction per cycle.  The third salient
>point is that it is extremely doubtful that the supercomputer being
>developed is a single-processor machine.

The article in this morning's San Jose Mercury News stated that the system
being built for the DOE would have more than 8,000 processors.


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