Does anyone know what the comparable figures for an Intel server cluster are? Looking around the net, it seems like the cost of the hardware required for that

Does anyone know what the comparable figures for an Intel server cluster are? Looking around the net, it seems like the cost of the hardware required for that half a million ops figure is in the neighborhood of $30k. The article had an 8 core T2 with 64gb of ram. http://www.google.com/products?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=ultrasparc+t2&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=OK8bSvGgNoWwtAPDuPSSDw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title http://www.google.com/products?client=safari&rls=en-us&#... Take a look on Newegg, and it would seem that it'd be enough to buy you around 20 Intel boxes with 16 gigs of ram each. The configuration I used put a Core2 Quad on each machine, so our cluster would have 80 cores and 320gb of memory. Unless there's a huge gotcha somewhere regarding the system bus in the Intel architecture vs. the Sun architecture, the Intel cluster still seems to win out. The Sun box indicated that they used DDR2 chips but didn't indicate what speed, so I picked DDR2 800.