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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. But... by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At least you can trust that you are not having any silent data corruption when your apps run on the Dell cluster.

    No ECC in a supercomputer, what were they thinking?