Poor Niagara :). The Niagara design though was clearly intended for web serving/databases and Sun didn't go try selling it into the LINPACK/supercomputing segme

Poor Niagara :). The Niagara design though was clearly intended for web serving/databases and Sun didn't go try selling it into the LINPACK/supercomputing segment. That's the disconnect for me. To be clear, if you had a multi-hundred processor system sitting around (as we kind of did, thanks SGI!), you used it. But... you probably shouldn't have purchased it.