Alliant Computer Systems Corp of Littleton, Massachusetts, says it has achieved the highest Linpack 1000 rating of any supercomputer in the under-$2m price range for its $1.4m 14-processor Alliant FX/2800 Intel 80860 RISC-based, parallel supercomputer; it achieved a rating of 295 MFLOPS on the Linpack 1000 tests published in Dongarra’s report, Performance of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Equations Software; Linpack ratings measure and compare the performance of computer systems used in scientific and engineering disciplines.
