[Vo]:OT: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

2008-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
This is getting seriously off-topic for alternative energy (or maybe not!)... But a techno-Geek Vortician sent me info about the availability NOW of teraflop desktop supercomputers and servers. If you have the buck$ for a parked Beamer, say, but would rather have a 24/7 internet screamer, go for

Re: [Vo]:OT: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

2008-02-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Actually the price of entry into terabyte computing has dropped in the past 4 years from $25 million(minimum) to less than $5,000, and will likely continue to exceed Moore's Law for a while. I believe that is because recent breakthroughs are mainly in massively parallel