Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: glover@tngstar.cray.com (Roger Glover)
Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:50:46 GMT
Message-ID: <9412302103.AA25808@hikimi.cray.com>


In article <3dhnlf$32r5@theory.tc.cornell.edu>, Melinda Shore <shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu> wrote:

|> KSR went under because of marginal business practices by a
|> few of their execs, not because of problems with the
|> technology.  Our 128-cell KSR/1 is continuing to provide
|> excellent service to our scientific users, with our current
|> mtbf being somewhere in the three to four week range under
|> significant load.  The performance of individual processors
|> is nothing to write home about and i/o performance is
|> really pretty terrible, but I'd much rather see them get it
|> right first and then get it fast.  Their shared memory
|> performs quite well, incidentally.

Boy, are you guys at Cornell easy-going or what!  Our customers and
prospects always seem to demand right and fast *at the same time*.  :^)

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