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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (3637)	11/21/1997 12:46:00 PM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

>> The IBM SP2 on the other hand can be used >a screw driver can be used as a hammer in a pinch ;-) Seriously >though, >my understanding of the SP2 was the the programming model required a >lot of hand localization, hand parallelization to get anything close >to linear subdivision of a problem. John, Wake up and take a walk outside of your technical ivory tower! Bring yourself up-to-date with state-of-the-art parallel pipeline programming. If not, very soon a rude awakening not unlike the one on the graphic side will hit you faster you can utter "oh". Shoot, I still don't know why I wrote the above paragraph. I may end up spending more time trying to rationalize it. -Al