(Related) Other supercomputing news..

[Douglas Eadline]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Brian Dobbins wrote:

> 
> Future Beowulf hardware, too..?
> 
>   CNN has an article I just caught about a 'hypercomputer', boasting power
> about 60,000 times that of a 350MHz Pentium.  Sounds ridiculous,
> especially for $1000, but hey, it's on CNN, it -can't- be wrong.. right?!
> :)

As the late Carl Sagan would say "Incredible claims require incredible
evidence" (Or something to that effect). Having browsed the webpage
before, I found that of the three people mentioned, only one
seems to have a technical background.  None seem to have any experience
in super-computing. (Nor does the company have an email address that
I could find.  I wanted to send them a code to benchmark.)

I believe the correct word to describe these types of announcements is
"piffle".

Doug

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