[geeks] distributedfolding

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jan 14 13:02:44 CST 2003


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:39:52PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Nope.  The C90 is a much older machine, first shipped in 1990 or 
> 1991.  The T90 was the first one to top it performance-wise, though, at 
> 2 GFLOPS per processor.  The C90 cranks out 1 GFLOP per processor.  The 
> J90 was intended as a lower-cost (starting at ~$300K for a minimal 
> uniprocessor config), lower-performance (CMOS, air-cooled, 220V, no 
> MGs, no heat exchangers, etc) machine.

MGs?
 
>   (And for all you x86 overclockers out there who might turn your noses 
> up at those numbers...these figures are for what your Intel processors 
> would call "double-precision". ;))

Aren't they what most processors would called double precision?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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