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- From: gordon@madmax.uwaterloo.ca (Gordon R. Strachan)
- Subject: Re: New HP Workstations
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <HARDY.92Nov10204059@golem.ps.uci.edu> <BxM20p.EA8@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:48:16 GMT
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- In article <BxM20p.EA8@apollo.hp.com> mcsavaney_d@apollo.hp.com (#David McSavaney) writes:
- >In article <HARDY.92Nov10204059@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
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- >The Model 735 is the ideal building block for the cluster computing
- >solution recently introduced by HP and Convex Computer Corp. For example, a
- >rack of eight Model 735 workstations running Convex cluster software delivers
- >more than 1,500 peak Mflops and nearly 1 billion instructions per second
- >providing supercomputer performance at a small fraction of the cost.
- >
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- Hold the phone! What is this? This seems to suggest there is a way of
- constructing a multiprocessor 735, is this correct? I would dearly love more
- information on this. Sigh... Why does HP always announce their products a
- month after the grant proposals are due? :-)
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- Gordon
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