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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:11:47 GMT
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- 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.
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- My question is, when people buy supercomputers at $250,000 per GFLOP, what are
- they getting in addition to computational power?
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
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