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RE: MISC-d Digest V97 #28




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From:  Penio Penev[SMTP:penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu]
Sent:  July 24, 1997 14:36
To:  MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu
Cc:  MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu
Subject:  Re: MISC-d Digest V97 #28

 

To summarize, I believe that for special purpose supercomputing, the MISC
approach will be 10 times the performance/price of the general purpose
approach.  I remains to be seen whether this is enough for somebody to
make money on that.

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Penio Penev <Penev@pisa.Rockefeller.edu> 1-212-327-7423

My experience is that 10X price-performance is a *minimum* acceptable level for *viability* of a special-purpose computer.  If you want to talk about *profitability* or *growth*, better make that 100X!