Preferred Citation: Ames, Karyn R., and Alan Brenner, editors Frontiers of Supercomputing II: A National Reassessment. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0f59n73z/

 
Supercomputing Alternatives

Minicomputers and Superminis

These machines provide up to 20 per cent of the capacity of a CRAY-MP processor. But again, with only 0.25 per cent the speed of the LINPACK peak of the Cray, they are also less-than-ideal supercomputer substitutes.

Supercomputing Alternatives
 

Preferred Citation: Ames, Karyn R., and Alan Brenner, editors Frontiers of Supercomputing II: A National Reassessment. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0f59n73z/