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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53554)9/1/2001 8:35:06 AM
From: fyodor_Respond to of 275872
 
Wanna: But at any rate, I doubt price/performance comes into the equations much when on the topic of supercomputers. ;-)

It does very much. There have been a slew of universities who have built supercomputing clusters around the Athlon processor. If cost wasn't a huge issue, everyone would just use the Alpha 21264, which basically tears a huge whole in x86 performance on the types of code these clusters will run.

-fyo


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