Author: Graham Laight
Date: 09:14:25 10/30/98
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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. It is 15,000 times faster than the average home At 4 trillion calculations per second, it can do 5000x the amount that the entire human race could do - all working flat out on simple calcuations! >computer and has 80,000 times as much memory. >In a hypothetical situation where Fritz5 or one of the other top programs was >running on this machine, what type of performance in NPS or rating could we >expect to see? >Would it pummel any GM on the planet? >Thanks in advance from a curious newbie. >Peter I notice from the web site (http://www.rs6000.IBM.com/resource/features/1998/asci_oct/asci_fact.html) that it costs $94 million to buy. For that price, you could bribe any GM on the planet to let you pummel them! Even for a company of IBM's size, at that price, if they built one, and then the customer cancelled the order, it would ruin their monthly financial figures!
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