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To: BillHoo who wrote (9914)	3/23/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	of 213176

"...PC manufacturers should use that excess heat as a marketing point instead of a liability to repair. i.e. build a cooking slot into the machine to heat up lunch and sandwiches, or keep you coffee warm..." Sorry for being off topic. But here is a very interesting article which talks about Cray T90 Supercomputer. It points out the difference in design philosophy between personal computer and supercomputers. kassandra.com "A few months ago I was reading some marketing buzz for a new low-power processor design, "...with a power consumption of only 3 watts!" My immediate reaction was, "Gee, that's pitiful." How can a chip requiring only three watts of power do anything interesting, when the latest Alpha processor draws something like twenty times as much?..." "By contrast, in the supercomputing arena, speed is the absolute arbiter of success, and the electrical power going in and the heat coming out are just a natural part of the high performance computing equation. That is not to say that power and heat dissipation are squandered or ignored; they still loom large over every engineer's head. However, rather than inspiring anxiety, they inspire awe." Eric

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