[ale] Speaking of SGI...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 16:14, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
> 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....

Nah. He's in Maryland, not Florida :)

> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
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