Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?

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From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:44

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In article <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
>Actually, even the $250,000/GFLOP number sounds a bit low to me; $2M/GFLOP
>is closer to the current going rate.

I don't know what Cray's prices are, but $250K/GFLOP is the ballpark
figure for the CM-5. 

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