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Re: UpNDown post# 40714

Tuesday, 07/27/2004 11:37:31 PM

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:37:31 PM

The first quarter of the $90 million, 41.5 teraflops (trillion operations/second) machine should be installed at Sandia by the end of September and fully up and running by January, says Bill Camp (Sandia’s Director of Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics), who heads the effort to design and assemble the innovative machine.

What a joke. NASA Ames is probably going to have a faster
10240 CPU Altix system installed up and running before
then for about half the price. It is amazing how much more
efficient a similar goal can be achieved when you think
things out and utilize commercially available components
instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with a one-of-a-kind
Spruce Goose style monument to government waste.

http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2004/july/supercomputing_ctr.html

"SGI has already delivered the first three of the new Altix systems to NASA Ames, with the entire 10,240 Itanium 2 processor-based supercomputing array to be completed over the next several months."