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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. Re:Costs by wud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    kill bill is frikin amazing.. EVERYONE GO SEE IT NOW.... if you dont know what it is, let me explain... quentin tarantino made a kung fu movie... need i say more?

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    wud
  2. Re:Costs by cptgrudge · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I saw Kill Bill. The movie sucks so much ass that I almost left. Thank God I didn't pay full price since I went to a matinee. I could have done without all the squirting and the spraying. I don't mind violence, but this had no direction; no purpose. It reminded me of a badly done live action anime.

    Half the people in the theater I was in left before we even got halfway through. I've enjoyed other Tarantino films in the past, but this one was pure, unadulterated shit.

    I was going to post as an AC, but no, I will be heard. Moderators: This post is offtopic, and should be moderated as such.

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  3. My mistake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey guys, it's me ,"AC", again. Sorry for the typo. I was so busy jerking off to pictures of my mother fellating our pet chicken that my one-handed typing suffered a bit. I meant to say that 'Guarding them with girls will certainly keep me away -- seeing as I am such a pathetic luser...although the gun as a phallic symbol might attract me from my hangout in the locker room of my local gym as I am such a closet homosexual.

    Again, sorry for the confusion,

    Anonymous Coward

  4. Re:Here's a copy of the apple turns web page by uunh+haun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod up, it's ture