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Article #364Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
From: Steve Gombosi
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:57
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:57
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In article <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes: >In article <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com writes: >>if you know how to build a 1GFLOP machine for $10,000 >>(much less sell it for that much), then you should do >>so immediately and become immensely wealthy. >> >>i don't know where you got this $10K number, but boy, >>are you confused. > >Actually, even the $250,000/GFLOP number sounds a bit low to me; $2M/GFLOP >is closer to the current going rate. And for a *sustainable* gigaflop/sec, I'd say the number is even higher... Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!copper!aspen.craycos.com!sog From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer? Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175728.3002@craycos.com> Date: 16 Nov 92 17:57:28 GMT References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> Organization: Cray Computer Corporation Lines: 15