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To: Justin Banks who wrote (6085)	5/6/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Yeah, but Sandia has a 400 node cluster of Linux boxes running on Decpaq Alpha and linked with myrinet, Ames has a 128 node PPro cluster and NIH has a 64-node dual-cpu cluster that killed an IBM SP2 purchase (cost of ~$200k vs $1M++ for approximately equivalent compute power). So, Linux with Beowulf is well into a portion of the super-computing space, just not quite to SGI's portion yet (though the days of ganging Challenges and Origins via HiPPI are probably close to over, but not just because of Linux).