[ale] Speaking of SGI...

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:13, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>>Why "one"?
>>
>>That's all I can afford???
>>
> 
> HA!
> The base price for the _previous_ origin 3000 was $40k per brick (4 MIPS
> processors/4U). 
> 
> And it did some SERIOUS butt-kicking in the raw number crunching arena.
> I have friend who does untellable spooky number crunching for some part
> of the feds on a 2 year old Origin system (he didn't have to share with
> anyone either!!). He was telling me the absolute best part of the entire
> system was no need to hard code the model for a particular memory size.
> Just plug in more c-bricks ($$$$$) and more RAM ($$$$$$$$$$$$$). He had
> something he did which consumed 600+ Gigs RAM. I can only speculate on
> the problem.

Probably counting votes....

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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