On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> From the stimulus bill:  Social Security: $500 million goes to replace
> its 30-year-old computer system.
>
> Suppose you were going to bid on this as a vendor.   What kind of
> system would you recommend at 500 million?
>


You could get 500 sc5832's

http://sicortex.com/products/high_capability_system_sc5832

The SiCortex 5832 is the first and only computer system of the 21st century
to pack Top500 performance onto a single backplane. It offers 5,832
1.4GFlops 64-bit processors, each dissipating just 900 milliwatts of power.
All interprocessor communications logic plus two DDR-2 memory controllers
and PCI Express I/O logic are on the same node chip with the multiple
processor cores. Complete with its 8 Terabytes of system memory, the SC5832
fits in a single cabinet and only requires around 20 kilowatts of wall
power.


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