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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (175049)	8/27/2001 9:09:09 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	of 769670

Well you say the fastest computers are also the biggest, ie the supercomputers, and they are typically used for nuclear weapon simulation or weather simulation. Well for that problem and problems that are really really big these would be systems that are the fastest way to compute the answer. But tens of thousands of smaller problems can be solved a lot faster with faster computers that are sized to fit the thousands more smaller problems. Computers that would give and answer faster than if the problems were run on the Super Computer. Also It take two year or so for a super computer to come up online and it's technology is already 2 years old. On the edge of obsolete? You will find that the low power of a .13 pIII with 512k cache makes one wonder why anyone would waste money on a P4. The very low power of pIII vs P4 and performance issues have me leaning to the pIII. Cost wise I can put together a dual PIII with more flops than a single P4 for less money. But again the P4 is for fast computer games and I doubt a nickle of money from Uncle is funding the developments. tom watson tosiwmee

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