Alliant Computer Systems Corp, Littleton, Massachusetts reports that its new Campus/800 massively parallel supercomputer has achieved a price-per-GFLOPS level twice as good as that of the new top-of-the-line Cray Research Inc Y-MP C90: the results are in the December 9 Linpack benchmark report published by Dr Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory – a Campus/800 configured with 192 80860 RISC processors and 4Gb memory, achieved 4.781 GFLOPS on the Massively Parallel Linpack benchmark, which the company says means that an 800 processor configuration with 128Gb would do 32 GFLOPS, and a 16-CPU Cray Y-MP C90 did 13.7 GFLOPS for a price per Linpack GFLOPS of $2.2m; the Campus/800 is $5.21m for the 192-processor configuration, which comes to $1.1m per Linpack GFLOPS.
