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Re: What are people paying for when they by a s

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From: Bob Alverson
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:09
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In article 5302@athena.mit.edu, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
> 
> My question is, when people buy supercomputers at $250,000 per GFLOP, what are
> they getting in addition to computational power?
> 

Memory bandwidth!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!uw-beaver!tera.com!news
References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu>

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From: bob@tera.com (Bob Alverson)
Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a s
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160954.8409@tera.com>
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Organization: Tera Computer Company, Seattle, WA
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:09:54 GMT
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