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To: JPR who wrote (1635)	6/23/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (4) of 12475

Super computers, PARAM etc. Sophisticated equipments were designed and used before the days of super computers. You can't compare a YUGO with a Benz. But both are capable of doing the same task they are intended for. Both will get the job done. First, your analogy is acceptable provided the YUGO can at least move! Second, if it does, it should be capable of running at least at a decent speed. If it takes 30 days to make the trip from SF to LA, then the YUGO is not of practical value even if it can move! Whenever it comes to claims about PARAM, one should ask about the 100 x 100 64-bit All-Fortran LINPACK benchmark. Where in the world are the LINPACK numbers for PARAM? After all, if the Intel Paragon (a machine similar in architecture to PARAM) can do 9.8 MFLOPS, PARAM should be able to get some number similar to that. Why is that figure not available at all? Is it because they have been unable to even execute the benchmark on 1 CPU of the PARAM? Or is it because the number is so pathetically low (~ 1 MFLOP or less) that C-DAC (the maker of PARAM) was unwilling to release it?

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