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To: John Koligman who wrote (4183)	10/28/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) of 8218

John, thanks. It's good to see companies building supercomputers out of more standard hardware, like R6/6000 rather than the all custom ones of the old days. Re: "Using one sixth of its total computing power, Blue Mountain was able to run a simulated nuclear weapons test that analyzed physics interactions in an area divided into 30 million zones, he said. A similar simulation on the tried-and-true Cray Y-MP supercomputer was only able to run the simulation with 2.5 million zones." You have to like simulating bombs, rather than exploding them. Also, heaven forbid, maybe we will have more accurate weather predicting some day thanks to computers like this. IBM got some TV ad time publicity over the chess computer; maybe for this one also? Tony

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