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- From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175728.3002@craycos.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:57:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com>
- Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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- In article <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com writes:
- >>if you know how to build a 1GFLOP machine for $10,000
- >>(much less sell it for that much), then you should do
- >>so immediately and become immensely wealthy.
- >>
- >>i don't know where you got this $10K number, but boy,
- >>are you confused.
- >
- >Actually, even the $250,000/GFLOP number sounds a bit low to me; $2M/GFLOP
- >is closer to the current going rate.
-
- And for a *sustainable* gigaflop/sec, I'd say the number is even higher...
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- Steve
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