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Subject: Re: IBM

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:07:33 10/29/98

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On October 29, 1998 at 13:16:53, blass uri wrote:

>
>On October 29, 1998 at 11:52:21, Peter Hegger wrote:
>
>>I read an article in today's newspaper about IBM's new super computer which is
>>nicknamed "Pacific Blue". According to this article PB can make 3.9 trillion
>>calculations per second.
>
>What is the definition of a calculation?
>
>Adding integer numbers is different from adding real numbers or from multiplying
>and I do not understand what do you mean by calculation.
>
>Uri


this is probably called a 3.9 terraflop machine.  Which means trillions of
floating point operations per second...



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