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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (63381)	8/25/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Here's something from the "For What Its Worth Department" UCLA has demonstrated that four linked G3s can outprocess a CRAY Supercomputer at a fraction of the price. UCLA's study showed that a cluster of four Macs now has the same computational power (and twice the memory) as one of the best supercomputers of eight years ago, a four-processor CRAY Y-MP. The cost for the Mac set-up was also much cheaper, as low as $45/Mflop. Used in the study were Power Mac G3/266s with 288 MB RAM and 6GB hard drives. "This is especially interesting to hear, as there are going to be some large Mac migration attempts on the way at UCLA for the coming year," says John Lu (khaihon@ucla.edu), Macintosh Student Association co-founder and VP of Internal Affairs. "I hope that some Mac fans from UCLA will be aware of this feat and understand that there are some great ideas spawning forth from Mac users. I urge those students and faculty of UCLA who are MacCentral readers to join the Macintosh Student Association, UCLA Chapter." The link to the UCLA site is exodus.physics.ucla.edu. P.S. The above referenced G3s are 266 machines. Apple is about to start shipping G3 333 machines!