I realize I'm slicing and dicing an article here, and I feel silly
for doing that, but what the hell. I have a couple of comments. :)
On August 3, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> in a sidebar. ( prob this should be Cray-2 ED). The G4 is being touted as a
> "Supercomputer for the desktop" and with the performance figures of a
> Gigaflop/s (1 CPU) it is certainly up to at least 1992 supercomputer cpu
...but the vector length is so short that there's no way to sustain
that for more than a few cycles. When configured for data types
of a width comparable to Crays native 64-bit single precision, the
vector depth is a whopping TWO elements.
As much as I like the G4, dem's the facts.
And if I see ONE MORE IDIOT on eBay advertising some slow-ass Dell
Pentium crap as a "supercomputer" I'm going to hop on a plane and
open up a can of 100% pure Whup Ass on the moron.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 16:47:38 BST