🚀 go-pugleaf

I am not going to bother trying to prove that $10K for 1 GFLOP peak is
very do-able. If you don't believe me that's fine, but I think I have
here the bits of information that I was looking for on why we don't see
machines with this price performance.

In article <1992Nov16.192316.22684@news.eng.convex.com>, Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM> writes:

|> Going from parts cost to full product takes on the order of a factor of 5
|> for low to moderate volume products.

|> It is also worth noting that any system that is shipping today started its
|> design 2 to 5 years ago.  A design started today should produce a product
|> which cost significantly less with a higher performance.

While I am working on a related project of my own, I originally asked the
question after noting the HUGE price difference between the low-end and
high-end AXP machines, and the comparatively low performance gain. Clearly
people are getting something for that extra money and its not superior
performance. I wanted to see what people who may have been involved in the
purchase of a supercomputer think they got for their money.

Jason W. Solinsky