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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: <1992Nov17.221651.7578@craycos.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:16:51 GMT
- References: <schumach.721938542@convex.convex.com> <1992Nov17.054017.9167@craycos.com> <1992Nov17.172227.19613@nas.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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- In article <1992Nov17.172227.19613@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.054017.9167@craycos.com>, sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) writes:
- >|> In article <schumach.721938542@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
- >|> >In <1992Nov16.171314.2178@craycos.com> sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) writes:
- >|> >
- >|> >>>>>what are they getting in addition to computational power?
- >|> >>... several hundred gallons of Fluorinert(r) ;-).
- >|> >
- >|> >Not necessarily. Some of us are ozone-friendly. :->
- >|>
- >|> Fluorinert is a FLUOROcarbon, not a CHLOROFLUOROcarbon like Freon.
- >|> It doesn't form any weird, nasty ozone-depleting free radicals.
- >|> It's the chlorine that does that. We're a kinder, gentler supercomputer
- >|> company ;-).
- >|>
- >|> Steve
- >Yea, but do you use CFCs in the cooling plant of the Y-MP???????
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- Wrong company. You're thinking of Cray Research.
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- Steve
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