Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:51:12 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 16:19:54, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 14, 2000 at 13:55:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Tom, please. Cray makes the fastest machines on the face of this planet. >>These machines sell for up to 60 million dollars. Do you _really_ think that >>_anything_ is "not worth the trouble to them?" They do _everything_ possible > >Bob, please. I know there are things that are not worth the trouble to them. >Does Cray only make computers with GaAs processors? No. Wrong company. Seymour left cray to make the cray-3 using gallium. Cray research has stuck with traditional silicon. Cray computers (Seymour's old company) went belly-up a year or so before he was killed in a car crash. He delivered 1/4 of one machine to NCAR. > >>However I still think that the gains are from raising the core cpu voltage >>more than from trying to lower the core cpu temperature... > >Like I said, I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they do raise the voltage a >lot. My only (and original) point is this: it's not inconcievable that the >Athlon is extremely stable at 1GHz. Increasing Vcc will lower the switching >times. So will lowering the temperature. As long as the switching times can be >lowered enough, the chip will be stable. That's it. As long as you can accept >these simple facts, I don't see why we're arguing. > >-Tom Anything is possible. However, if it were stable at 1ghz I suspect they would be selling it at 1ghz (AMD) rather than 750?? However, it is an interesting concept, although I am not impressed so far as these boxes don't seem to be horribly reliable.
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