re: 20k workstations

[jle \\at// world.std.com (Joe M Leonard)]

I guess a bit of marketing hype leaked through...
 I have seen several benchmarks that suggest that the performance of the
 latest class of workstations are similar in performance to an XMP, and
 provide a significant fraction (1/5th or more) of a YMP.  Naturally, this
 dependes on the particular code - scalar stuff really favors the workstation
 while vector stuff plays to the Cray.
 The point to be considered, however, is the price/performance ratio (gee, I
 guess this is used to attack just about every salesman in existance...).  \
 Commodity chips are spreading everywhere - with SPARC's used in the latest
 Connection Machine...
 Joe Leonard
 jle \\at// world.std.com