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Subject: Re: Personal Super Computer

Author: Terry Giles

Date: 05:11:22 05/05/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 05:45:07, Martin Andersen2 wrote:

>Hello!
>
>Orion is shipping a nice small "supercomputer" which has 96 CPU's and
>a peak performance of 230 Gflops. It costs only $100000 :-)
>
>How would an optimized Crafty do on such a thing ? Would it be stronger
>than Hydra ?
>
>Text and pictures here: http://www.orionmulti.com/products/specs_ds96
>
>
>Martin Andersen


Hi Martin,

Possibly, who knows?
However Hydra uses FPGA's and I believe some purpose built hardware, so it's not
just down to GigaFlops.

Terry



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