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- From: mo@wind.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170306.10986@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:03:06 GMT
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- OK - maybe I was confused....
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- Barry Margolin suggested that maybe the original comment arrived
- at $10/GFLOP, not a $10K 1-GFLOP machine. That would mean a
- $10M 1-TFLOP machine.
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- while i still think that's low, it isn't as unreasonable as
- i first thought when i interpreted it as impying a $10K 1-GFLOP
- machine.
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- i now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion.
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- -Mike
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