Author: Olaf Jenkner
Date: 09:57:36 05/30/00
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On May 30, 2000 at 00:41:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >The headache here is that the definition of "supercomputer" has changed a lot >over the last 30 years. Today, most of the top-500 list are cluster machines, >with the IBM SPs right in there at the top. Yet none of those machines can >really hold a candle to a 10 year old C90 for typical huge matrix mathematical >modelling programs. It is way harder to get one of these clusters up to a >monster performance number than it was for an old Cray. So the term has >changed... As has the marketplace... > >Although Cray is still selling the things... > Does it mean, there was a slow development in the field of such machines? They are so important in FEM-Modelling, weather forecast ... Of course for computer chess I wouldn't use them.
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