eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (04/15/89)
Remember when practically nobody posted to net.arch? In article <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) writes: >"Advanced Military Computing", a darpa director named Raymond Colladay is >quoted as claiming that DARPA plans to have a billion operation per second >supercomputer packaged in 10 cubic inches by next year. I don't have >access to "Advanced Military Computing" so I can't say whether a >longer article appeared there. Ray Colladay is the acting DARPA head who used to sign my travel at NASA HQ. Are you sure it's not a cube "10 inches on a side?" That is completely foreseeable. SO WHAT? Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." Live free or die. I am here on a one time fishing expedition to check something (asked by work). You guys are still doing foreign language requirement postings? Gawd! Who could have designed a news interface to handle that, of all the things to pick up on. Editing.....please. Last word on this: the people in graphics don't have anything to worry about, their bibliographies have been maintained by a German and an Indian and thus have extremely good foreign language coverage. [so move this to sci.lang if you want to follow this line.]
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (04/21/89)
In article <3210@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >In article <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) writes: >>"Advanced Military Computing", a darpa director named Raymond Colladay is >>quoted as claiming that DARPA plans to have a billion operation per second >>supercomputer packaged in 10 cubic inches by next year. I don't have >>access to "Advanced Military Computing" so I can't say whether a >>longer article appeared there. > >Ray Colladay is the acting DARPA head who used to sign my travel at NASA HQ. >Are you sure it's not a cube "10 inches on a side?" That is completely >foreseeable. SO WHAT? This matches what I remember from my GE R&D days (rpm-40), when the government put out an RFP for 1000 cubic inch (10x10x10), 1 gigaflop machine. You can do it (theoretically and using peak flops) right now. Practicly and sustained flops are another issue, as well as inter-processor communication. -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup
harris@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ray Harris) (04/22/89)
In article <3210@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >In article <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) writes: >>"Advanced Military Computing", a darpa director named Raymond Colladay is >>quoted as claiming that DARPA plans to have a billion operation per second >>supercomputer packaged in 10 cubic inches by next year. I don't have >>access to "Advanced Military Computing" so I can't say whether a >>longer article appeared there. > >Ray Colladay is the acting DARPA head who used to sign my travel at NASA HQ. >Are you sure it's not a cube "10 inches on a side?" That is completely >foreseeable. SO WHAT? From E.E. Times, April 17, 1989, article on DARPA's future emphasis: "...,the agency has recently been able to redirect the program's goal to development of so-called Teraops systems. It's hoped to demonstrate such a system by the mid-1990s, he [Colladay] said. Drawing on the same technologies, though with necessarily more limited performance goals, Colladay said DARPA is also emphasizing embedded systems, a project driven by such things as the needs of the future space station and spacecraft, as well as underwater craft. The intention is to put a Gigaflops system into a module the size of a soup can, Colladay said." -- harris@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ray Harris) ...!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!harris ...!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!harris