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To: pgerassi who wrote (141222)	8/9/2001 11:58:55 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Petered Out - Re: "Of course $53 million could buy 10K Dual Athlon MP 1U servers in a far more powerful cluster " They wanted UPTIME - so the AThWipers were ruled out from the GetGo ! I see you AMDrods are already reeling with 64 bit ITanium Envy !!

To: pgerassi who wrote (141222)	8/10/2001 10:22:55 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Pete,<<<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.>>> Real kludgy. At least I know where you are coming from. But why stop with Dual Athlon MP's. You could no doubt do it with AMD K6's (with a few more units) and you could have done it 5 years ago. And, that is where you are getting the .2 to 2% cpu cost ratio. With one of your special kludged up systems you would need 50 to 500 times the cost of the cpu's for special software/hardware support services to maintain all the work arounds to keep the system functional and performing to spec. You could have stated these assumptions from the beginning and we could have avoided our discussion (ggggg). regards, Mary