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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (141191)	8/9/2001 8:01:33 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Mary, >Using a conservative lower/upper bound Itanium processor cost of $3000/6000, the 3300 Itanium processors would account for $9.9M - $19.8M cost of the $53M system or 18-36 % of system (not server) cost that include ability to store, access and share more than 450 trillion bytes of information. Of course, that isn't true because Gordon Moore is a contributor to the NSF, and he is donating the Itaniums. They are, therefore, 0% of the server, and the system, cost. Thought I'd beat the jackals to it. ;-) Good job jumping on that. Tony

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (141191)	8/9/2001 10:54:45 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Mary: The cost of the system in not $53 million. The award will link systems that either already exist or will exist. Terra Grid is the linkage of the systems (the network and software linking the systems) at 4 computing sites one of which has a preexisting contract for a 300 processor system. A portion of $53 million for the high speed network linking these machines is not a bad price since two are in Illinois (Batavia and Urbana-Champaign) and two in California (Pasadena and San Diego). Evidently you thought that was the whole price for all of it. Need to read the press release more carefully. Probably the upgrade of the current gigabit net currently in place between SCSA centers. Of course $53 million could buy 10K Dual Athlon MP 1U servers in a far more powerful cluster with over 3QB (Quadrillion bytes of storage, 1000 TB or 1,000,000GB), capable of more than 40 teraflops with less than 10% in CPUs and still have money left over. And it is available now, not in 2002. Pete