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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (74949)3/1/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Jim, >>>Did you read that article the other day that some Utah company
is claiming the highest performance supercomputer built around
an array of FPGA based processors? "...

I saw that. Did you see the price? $26 million a pop. Isn't that a little steep?<<<

I think you're talking about a different animal here, of the Cray sort. After Lawrence Livermore buys one (they buy one of everything that comes out) you wonder who will buy the next one. Sandia, Berkeley, ??? These are extremely low quantity, not general purpose like Intel based machines target.

Tony



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (74949)3/1/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 186894
 
Jim,

I saw that. Did you see the price? $26 million a pop. Isn't that a little steep?

For the world's fastest supercomputer? That sounds like quite a bargain to me. Do you know how much the Intel system at Sandia Labs cost, or the SGI system at Los Alamos?

Anyway, the manufacturing cost for that FPGA system is probably under $50,000.

Scumbria


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