But what has really happened

• 1987 Cray XMP 4 processors @200 Mflops/Processor

• 1987 Ncube 1,000 computers

• 1996 Intel 9,000 processors @100+ Mflops/computer

• Gains

  • 10x in parallelism
  • 10x in speed (to 2Gflops peak)

• Big gain is in pricing!

• Clock speed increase: 2-10

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