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To: milo_morai who wrote (53550)	9/1/2001 3:58:39 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Milo, I wasn't trying to claim that the Pentium III systems on that list had any better price/performance than the Athlon entry. After all, entry 389 used 500MHz Pentium III CPUs. How else would you expect them to compare against Athlon 1.33GHz CPUs? <g> I was merely trying to debunk what looked like you praising the Athlon for being the only x86 compatible CPU to make the 500 most powerful supercomputer list. I was just telling you that there were quite a lot of Intel based systems on that list as well, and all of them happen to perform better than the Athlon entry (even though they require more CPUs to do it in many cases). It's also interesting that Intel has reserved the #3 position. But at any rate, I doubt price/performance comes into the equations much when on the topic of supercomputers. ;-) wanna_bmw