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Article #353What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
From: Jason W Solinsky
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:11
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:11
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It seems to me that supercomputing power costs about $250,000 per GFLOP nowadays. It also seems to me that a company could sell a GFLOP box that has enough memory, I/O and internal bandwidth to support near peak performance at under $10,000 and have PLENTY of profit margin. My question is, when people buy supercomputers at $250,000 per GFLOP, what are they getting in addition to computational power? Jason W. Solinsky
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!solman From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) Subject: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer? Message-ID: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m4-035-1.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:11:47 GMT Lines: 9