I've seen this before, long ago, and it was fun to revisit it.
He talks about how they are working on Teraflop-scale machines in their near future, and a Tflop-capable CM5 would take up 'about the size of this room'. In reality, the CM5/1024 only hit 131 gigaflops, and even that was enough to be the top of the TOP500 list at the time.
Wild that I have something capable of 35+ teraflops of FP32 sitting right here on my desk now.
He talks about how they are working on Teraflop-scale machines in their near future, and a Tflop-capable CM5 would take up 'about the size of this room'. In reality, the CM5/1024 only hit 131 gigaflops, and even that was enough to be the top of the TOP500 list at the time.
Wild that I have something capable of 35+ teraflops of FP32 sitting right here on my desk now.