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A comment on Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine?.

Re:Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machi... by jacquesm on Thursday August 06, 2009 @04:21AM (#745032)
To answer my own question about how these machines stack up against present day hardware: the CM series machines rated about 5 Gflops, a 2008 run-of-the-mill desktop CPU does 70 Gflops!

Special purpose CPUs such as the AMD FireStream 9270 can do 240 GFLOPS...

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