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- From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:44:06 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com>
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- 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.
-
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