Just a comment about what you write on "T3E scales almost linearly". That's something in favour of Cray machine, but you're forgetting that obtaining this linear scalability requires quite hard programming (remember that the T3E is a distributed-memory machine and, although you could use the shmem routines to do some kind of shared memory programming, this is quite a high-level solution). On the other hand, you've got this CC-NUMA SGI architecture, which allows you to program the whole huge machine as a SMP. In brief, the T3E is a native message-passing computer, while the Origin is actually a very sophisticated (far more than Sun's ones) SMP. This is definitively a point in favour of Origin product-line. But, OK, the Cray is also a great machine.
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Could you please explain what you think is nice about Death Penalty?. IMHO, this phrase should have made you a clear candidate for being moderated.
Just a comment about what you write on "T3E scales almost linearly". That's something in favour of Cray machine, but you're forgetting that obtaining this linear scalability requires quite hard programming (remember that the T3E is a distributed-memory machine and, although you could use the shmem routines to do some kind of shared memory programming, this is quite a high-level solution). On the other hand, you've got this CC-NUMA SGI architecture, which allows you to program the whole huge machine as a SMP. In brief, the T3E is a native message-passing computer, while the Origin is actually a very sophisticated (far more than Sun's ones) SMP. This is definitively a point in favour of Origin product-line.
But, OK, the Cray is also a great machine.