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To: Amy J who wrote (126956)	2/9/2001 1:20:14 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Guess what happens to over-priced products with inferior performance? They get replaced with cost-effective solutions: SGI System Will Make the Ohio Supercomputer Center a World Leader In Production Cluster Computing...with the world's largest system using the new Itanium architecture.> Pleeze... give us a break. I suppose the "idiots" at Los Alamos and Sandia and Celera enjoy throwing good money away when they could have spent a lot less on IA64 and got higher performance? Drop them an email and become a national hero. The bandwidth of a Pentium IV is higher than Itanium and if you think bandwidth isn't a dominating consideration for a majority of HPC applications, spend some time at this site: cs.virginia.edu In particular here: cs.virginia.edu here: home.austin.rr.com And finally .. here: home.austin.rr.com Rob