Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: "C. Evangelinos" <ce107@hydra.cfm.brown.edu>
Subject: Re: Massively Parallel "Pizza Box" really the ICE box
Organization: Brown University
Date: 11 Sep 1995 15:31:19 GMT
Message-ID: <431ko7$2k6@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <42hnis$7gi@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: 

[snip]
>ICE has not run the NAS parallel benchmarks and its not clear to me
>whether they will.  My guess is that this box is for a signal
>processing market/image processing market than a more general purpose
>market (then you would expect to see Abingdon Cross Image Processing
>Benchmark numbers).

Unless my memory fails me the ICE machine can only support 32-bit
floating point arithmetic in hardware. For those of us that perform
double precision calculations the machine is completely useless,
whatever its real price/performance ratio is.

Constantinos

