RE: but will it run windows?

Heheh.

Your using the exact same theory I am.

People say, oh unix is much more scalable. Your saying so I can have 10 of mine for 1 of yours and still be at 50% of the cost.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

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You guys are arguing over the wrong stuff.

The real question is -

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these ..." :)

Paul

Ray Stell wrote:
>
> InformationWeek_at_update.informationweek.com:
>
> ** The World's Fastest Computer (This Week)
>
> Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,
> Calif., held a coming-out party this week, but it wasn't for a
> debutante--it was to dedicate the world's fastest computer, a silicon
> belle named ASCI White. And this young lady knows how to cook. It
> works at speeds of 12.3 teraflops, or trillion floating operations per
> second--faster than the combined speed of the next three most powerful
> machines on earth.
>
> The $110 million IBM supercomputer consists of 8,192 off-the-shelf IBM
> Power-3-II processors. It's got four terabytes of RAM and disk
> capacity of more than 160 terabytes, and it fills a computer room
> longer than two basketball courts. There's 49.3 miles of cable
> connecting the nodes of the machine, and it requires enough power to
> cool 765 homes.
> ===============================================================
> Ray Stell stellr_at_vt.edu (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D
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