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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (4942)	6/3/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Mark Dalton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

The LANL pricing is a bit biased, But "Avalon" as the Intel/Linux cluster is known, is a pretty good machine. I knew the guy that built it when I was there. They did not include the programmers and administrative costs of rewriting MPI, tcp/ip, or experienced folks doing the setup. The information on this project is at: swift.lanl.gov Basically you need to piece together hardware and software from various vendors and public sources. Fix portions so that it works together efficeintly, and internally maintain it all. Here is the FAQ swift.lanl.gov A good deal, yes. As long as, you have excellent support/programmers internally. It is not exactly ideal for your 'joe corporate' user or engineer. Actually Princeton has a Intel/Linux cluster also. Mark