water MIPS

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

water MIPS
 n.

   (see {MIPS}, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's
   ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional {mainframe} type.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

water MIPS

   <jargon> Large, water-cooled computers of either today's
   {ECL}-{supercomputer} flavour or yesterday's traditional
   {mainframe} type.

   See {MIPS}

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-03-25)

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