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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: <1992Nov16.171314.2178@craycos.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:13:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov15.200933.16043@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov16.023102.21232@nas.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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- In article <1992Nov16.023102.21232@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >>solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >>>what are they getting in addition to computational power?
- >In article <1992Nov15.200933.16043@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- >"Peter Beckman" <beckman@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >>Simple: R&D, software, support, and lots of cool mugs, t-shirts,
- >>highlighters, colorful posters, and slick glossies. -Pete
- >
- >How about >32-bit addressing: multi GB file systems, real 30+ MB/S file reads,
- >50 MB/S communication, decent numeric FP precision and performance, etc.
- >
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- And several hundred gallons of Fluorinert(r) ;-).
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- Steve
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