On 1/22/07, Roger Kolakowski rogerkola@aol.com wrote:

How fast is a Cray-2 in comparison to computers now? ;-)

...from the Cray website:

--------------- The first Cray-1™ system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 for $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 million floating-point operations per second (160 megaflops) and an 8 megabyte (1 million word) main memory. .The Cray-2™ system appeared in 1985, providing a tenfold increase in performance over the Cray-1. -------------

It's more a little misleading to just quote megaflops for a vector processor. But a 1.2GHz Athlon is quoted as peaking at around 600 megaflops. So, getcherself a quad SMP mobo...

By the way, Bob. Piet's last name is spelled "Hein".

73 de Maggie K3XS

"In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers." --Adm. Grace Hopper