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Univac I ran 100,000 adds/sec in 1954
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My IBM runs about 500,000,000 adds
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A factor-of-5,000 improvement
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ASCI Red ran 2,100,000,000,000 adds in
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A factor-of-21 Million improvement
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Can
we comprehend such speeds or
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factors
of improvement???
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