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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.191210.18472@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com> <1e8tm6INN61f@early-bird.think.com> <1992Nov16.212703.4519@nas.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:12:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.212703.4519@nas.nasa.gov>, fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg) writes:
- |> In article <1e8tm6INN61f@early-bird.think.com>, ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
- |> |> 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.
- |> |>
- |> |> --
- |> |> Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
- |> |> Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
- |> |> One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was
- |> |> the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
- |> Only if you mean peak. And if you think a CM-5 can deliver $250K/GFLOP on
- |> real application code, I have a bridge over the San Fancisco bay you might
- |> be interested in.
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- A curiosity question. When TMC sells people a CM-5, do they say it will do 1
- GFLOP per $250K, or do they actually note that this performance is only
- approached by heinously parallel code. (i.e. Are they trying to sell the CM-5
- as a general purpose supercomputer?)
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
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