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Poor Price Performance Ratio?

Hmmm: "A home-brew supercomputer, assembled from off-the-shelf personal computers in just one month at a cost of slightly more than $5 million, is about to be ranked as one of the fastest machines in the world. . . . the Apple-based supercomputer, which is powered by 2,200 I.B.M. microprocessors, was able to compute at 7.41 trillion operations a second . . . The Japanese [earth sciences] computer was measured at 35.8 trillion operations a second last year but American computer experts estimate that it cost as much as $250 million . . . the fastest cluster machine, the Lawrence Livermore system consisting of 2304 Intel Xeon processors, is capable of 7.63 trillion operations a second, at a price estimated at $10 million to $15 million. The Virginia Tech computer makes the cost-to-performance equation even starker." (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/technology/22SUPE.html)

Let's see,

Macs costs $675 per million operations per second (MPO).
Japan's machine costs $6,983 per MOP.
Lawrence Livermore's Xeons cost $1,311 per MOP.

This is bad?

Frihet

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