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To: Elmer who wrote (40791)	11/4/1998 3:15:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574071

Elmer, And they will be willing to pay dearly for it, just like they were willing before, but they will be few in number, just like before. What else is new? If you have some information about Compaq's pricing of 21264 systems, please pass it on to us. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (40791)	11/4/1998 4:19:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574071

Elmer, This might help clear up some of your misconceptions about Alpha and MP systems. Astrophysicist Mike Warren needed a supercomputer, but he couldn't get the computation time he needed on the machines at Los Alamos National Laboratory. So he built his own. Warren wired together 140 off-the-shelf computers with Digital processors, loaded them with the Linux operating system, connected them with ordinary Ethernet equipment and added 35.8GB of memory. Now he's got a machine that can perform 48.5 billion calculations per second. Code-named Avalon, Warren's laboratory special could rank among the top 100 on the list of the world's 500 fastest computers. A smaller, 70-processor version of Avalon ranked number 315 as of last June. The total price tag is $313,000--dirt cheap for a supercomputer. news.com Scumbria