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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <BxstzC.1G9@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 07:54:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >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?
-
- Amongst other things:
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- Support, libraries, a suitable OS, some apps, CPU cooling plant...
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- Damon
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