On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Steve Richfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Why?
>
> My home now has an "electric furnace" that sits in my large basement and 
> draws a LOT of power to heat my home.

A Cray-1 supercomputer should keep your house toasty warm. Specs:

136 MFLOPS average, 250 MFLOPS peak throughput.
8 MB memory.
5.5 tons.
115 KW electric consumption, not including Freon cooling system and peripherals.
Cost $5 to $8 million. Control computer, hard disks, and teletype extra.
No USB ports, mouse, or network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1


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