Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - II

Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - II

• 3. What are your Hardware specifications -- peak performance rates of base processors, sizes and structures of the various levels of the memory hierarchy (including caches), latency and bandwidth of communication links between each level, etc.
• 4. What are your Synchronization mechanisms; hardware fault tolerance facilities.
• 5. What are your Mass storage, I/O and visualization facilities.
• 6. Comment on support for extended precision (i.e., 128-bit and/or higher precision integer and floating-point arithmetic) -- hardware or software.

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