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Dell's supercomputer. HA!
Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by cocoamix:
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/09/29/daily37.html
$38 million on Dell hardware gets you 3 teraflops.
What a joke.
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That's actually incorrect. The Dell supercomputer cost about $3 mil to the school.
quote: "There are many more things that were needed to create ICES and establish a terascale distributed computing architecture at TACC. This point was made by TACC Director, Jay Boisseau, during the Lonestar dedication ceremony. The value of the specific computer referred to was approximately $3.0 million. And, no tuition funds were used in this process. Most of the money did not even come from UT. The package included $8M in discounts and donations from about 10 leading technology vendors, and over $15M from a generous foundation." And, she continued: "The VaTech number ONLY includes the actual computer, not the cost of the building, power, cooling, people, or anything else needed to actually operate it."
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Apple users play with numbers yet again. :D
Pissed_Macman:
Look at the expression on his face and his hands. He's obviously a spy for Apple giving out secret codes through his body language in that picture.
Fett101:
In that case.... he's either saying "I'm A Gangsta" or "I shouldn't have had that last slice of pickled pigs feet pizza"
Pissed_Macman:
Why are they all standing in those outhouses anyway?
Zombie9920:
And 2xG5 CPU's can't even beat a single P4, a single Athon 64 or a Single Athlon FX at anything but Photoshop(which the 2xG5's get beat by the 2xOpterons).
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp
Oh, and before anyones cries foul about this being on PCWorld read the briefing under the benchmarks chart. In there it says "Tests on PCs performed by the PC World Test Center; tests on Apple systems performed by the Macworld Test Center". So that means there was no Bias in the testing. ;P
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