[Gllug] Re: Super Computing Time

Axel Segebrecht alexander at smatrix.de
Mon Oct 8 13:49:36 UTC 2001


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> A clock frequency of 560 GHz implies a period of 1.78E-12 seconds,
> during which a clock signal propagating at the speed of light (2.998E8
> m/s) covers about half a millimeter. Anyone who can squeeze all that
> gear into a space smaller than that might be a pretty good physicist
> already. ;)

erm- I wish we could squeeze it into one tiny box but a large server room
filled with dual-cpu board nodes will have to make do for the moment :p

- -- 
Regards, Axel Segebrecht
http://smatrix.de
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