Since Cray Y-MP8 can hit two and a half billion flops, it is considered to be gigaflop supercomputer. |
The system includes six two gigaflop processors, 10 gigabytes of memory, one terrabyte of raided disk storage and high density tape subsystems. |
One looked especially juicy, compressed to just under a gigaflop and backed up in three separate locations. |
The 2000 SERIES Compute Server is designed for use in dedicated real-time applications requiring gigaflop performance with a high density format. |
They broke the gigaflop barrier in 1991 with Grape3, and speed increases have continued since. |
As for their claim to have built a pi-computing gigaflop supercomputer out of mail-order parts for around seventy thousand dollars, he flatly believed it. |