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This article is a bit confused; it looks like it was written a few years ago, and then partially edited. From reading it through, it sounds like you can now b
by icey 19y ago
This article is a bit confused; it looks like it was written a few years ago, and then partially edited.
From reading it through, it sounds like you can now build this "supercomputer" for about $1,300.
- Retric 19y agoIt's not your fault. He does not know what he is talking about. Gflops are just port of what makes a super computer a super computer. Like most computing systems Latency, Bandwidth, RAM, etc are all part of the equation. EX: A nVidia 8800 Ultra performs around 576 GFLOPS on 128 Processing elements it costs ~$615 today which is ~1/50 th his cost per GFlop numbers. But it would not on the top 25 list for June 2000 even though it has more processing power than the 537.6GFlop Nagoya University system. It's lacking in other resources which would limit it's ability to run the standard supercomputing benchmarks.