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Subject: Re: 200 Million NPS in 97 not 1 Billion NPS wrong again (nt)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:10:41 07/20/00

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On July 20, 2000 at 22:26:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 20, 2000 at 22:08:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2000 at 22:02:57, Chris Carson wrote:
>>
>>200 million was average throughput for all phases of the game.
>>
>>1 billion peak.
>>
>>"Raw" throughput was 14,400,000,000 nodes per second (480 chips times 30 million
>>NPS/chip), but the coordination cost was obviously very high.
>
>
>The 30M per chip is wrong.  earlier versions of the chip were 2.0M nodes
>per second.  The last batch or two (same exact hardware but the manufacturer
>did a better job making the chips) ran at 24mhz, which was 2.4M nodes per
>second.  so the right number is 480 * 2.2M.  I say 1B for simplicity...

Quite right.  I was thinking of the numbers for Hsu's shrunken chip.




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