From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:42:11 +0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Subject: Re: FPGAs and Heat (Re: Paranoid Musings)
In-Reply-To: <199608011848.LAA11828@netcom13.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199608012313.TAA12748@nrk.com>
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> 
> Timothy C. May writes:
> 
> > This was a company in Bowie, Maryland, closely linked with the NSA and with
> > the "supercomputer centers." 
> 
> That's one of the things that killed Thinking Machines.  It turned out
> that a standard supercomputer with PIM chips for memory could give the
> same performance for less money.  

See:

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beuwolf/beuwolf.html

Don is doing interesting things with less...

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