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- From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> <1e8tm6INN61f@early-bird.think.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:27:03 GMT
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- In article <1e8tm6INN61f@early-bird.think.com>, ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> --
- |> Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
- |> Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
- |> One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was
- |> the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
- Only if you mean peak. And if you think a CM-5 can deliver $250K/GFLOP on
- real application code, I have a bridge over the San Fancisco bay you might
- be interested in.
-
- Sam
-
- P.S., Don't feel so bad, our Cray can't deliver $250K/GFLOP either. In fact,
- we are lucky to get >1 GFLOP out of our Y-MP/8 on real code.
-