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Re: Hypercubes (place in life)

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From: ram
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1987 05:14
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 Fay wrote:

>The cost benefits are incredible when one realizes that these programs
>actually get better turn-around time on a $12,000 hypercube than a
				                  ^
						  +- where did a '0' go.
    Last time I heard (yesterday somebody at Argonne told me) it was
    125000 for a d4 machine (d-dimension & 4 is 4).  That price is without
    the vector processors in them.  Could somebody from Intel Clarify.

>batch-processing multi-million-dollar Cray.

    Watch out for cray discounts.  Wait(not too long) for the competition
    to build and see the prices tumbling.

>{linus,talcott,decvax,ihnp4,allegra,necis,compass}!encore!fay
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