Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 02:51:30 01/16/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 00:23:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >The SP isn't the best machine by far. Hsu could have done far better with a >machine based on an SMP alpha platform, rather than the message-passing on the >SP architecture. And then there are the Crays of course. Now maybe, not then. At the time, the Alpha was a weak shadow of the RS/6000 and with the full complement of CPU's, the RS/6000 is still master over the best current Alpha box. Cray is Silicon Graphics now. And it would be a large paradigm shift from SMP to message passing. >I think that most of what was accomplished could have been pulled off by any >company with the foresight to recognize the enormous P/R potential of the >project. Don't forget that Deep Thought was unbeatable as far as other >computers went, losing only a couple of games over a 10 year period. Yet it >was put together for almost nothing at a university... Here, I agree with you. But vision at the top is even more rare than incredible technical ability.
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