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

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 14, 2003 @02:58AM 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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Finally by techsoldaten · 2003-10-14 03:04 · Score: 0, Troll

Finally, a single example of someone saving money on the purchase of an Apple!

I guess this means the price of that new Apple desktop machine is going to drop to 1/7th of that of a similarly equipped PC, because right now it's pretty much the other way around, and I am not 'switching' so I can pay more to receive far less.

I wonder if the university is going to have to pay for system patches like ordinary users do, and how this is going to affect the cost for the system.