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Dell $38m Supercomputer [not] More Costly than VT's G5s

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the call-that-a-bargain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Austin Business Journal, Dell's 3-teraflop, 600 server supercomputer cluster cost the University of Texas $38 million. As The Apple Turns has pointed out that this is 7 times the cost (and a quarter of the power) of Apple's cluster at Virginia Tech! " Update: 10/14 17:56 GMT by M : worm eater writes "The Register has posted a correction to the widely-reported story that a 3.7 terraflop Dell cluster cost the University of Texas $38 million. As it turns out, the computer cost $3 million, vs. $5.2 million for the 17.6 terraflop Mac G5 cluster at Virginia Tech."

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  1. Shocking! by Bob9113 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So wait, let me see if I get this straight. Are they acutally implying that supercomputers built starting five years ago are actually more expensive per unit of computing power than supercomputers built today? Why, if that were true, and if the same thing applied to workstations, then you'd be able to get a 2 gigahertz machine today for what a 500 megahertz machine cost five years ago. Ludicrous I tell you. Simply ludicrous.

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  2. the extra 30 million by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 5, Funny

    went towards mice with more than one key

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  3. Re:Costs by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny
    Imagine it, we have ASCII blue, ASCII red and ASCII white guarded by guys with guns... ...Cool.

    Wanna really go for cool? Guard the Apples using girls with guns!