Re: Hello - and where to begin?
[email protected] (Albert van der Horst)
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:50:12PM -0800, Jeff Fox wrote: > > I wanted a Cray once. :) But seriously, I wouldn't know what to do with > > a billion or trillion Forth MIPS. And I'm one of the first few thousand > > people in the USA to have an XO, clocking in at only something like 400 > > - 800 MFLOPS. > > I can't afford to power a Cray. But seriously, if my PC were > a million times faster or a billions times faster that would > be better than what I have now and I could do more. I would > never have to wait for weeks for a PC to complete some > 'relatively simple' calculation like I do now. Funny, that we're talking about this. At the end of the 80's Shell was replacing Crays with transputers, for some tasks at least. I was a teamleader, doing geologic modelling. I wanted a transputer network for myself. And my prayers have been answered. I bought the original Atair workstation stuff (from 100.000 guilders down to about 1000 for 16 transputers). Then I could borrow a real supercomputer a Parsytec with 64 computing nodes and did a twin prime counting program on a network of over a hundred. I could afford the electricity, but in the summer it went too hot and tend to blow fuses ... > > Best Wishes > Groetjes Albert > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Main web page - http://www.colorforth.com > -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- like all pyramid schemes -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst