They aren't cheap processors, but they aren't overly expensive either. The performance is way above the Athlon or any other similar architecture. I believe they hold the title of Fastest Processor. They are available to the public and RedHat has a distro for them. There are multiprocessor motherboards. Take a look at some benchmark sites, they have incredible integer and floating point performance, and the chip design is really something. Take a look around the net, or on ebay, you can pick up a used mb/processor fairly cheap.
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They aren't cheap processors, but they aren't overly expensive either. The performance is way above the Athlon or any other similar architecture. I believe they hold the title of Fastest Processor. They are available to the public and RedHat has a distro for them. There are multiprocessor motherboards. Take a look at some benchmark sites, they have incredible integer and floating point performance, and the chip design is really something. Take a look around the net, or on ebay, you can pick up a used mb/processor fairly cheap.