Author: Bo Persson
Date: 05:23:38 10/11/00
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On October 10, 2000 at 07:18:13, Jason Williamson wrote: > [...] > >Next question, which costs more the 16 cpu alpha or the 30 million dollar cray? >;) Here's a Compaq press release: http://www5.compaq.com/newsroom/pr/2000/pr2000091103.html This shows database performance for their biggest AlphaServer GS320, with 32 processors and 128 GB RAM. If you multiply transactions per minute by dollars per transaction, it seems that you could get this hefty machine for a mere $8.2M... Also included is just over 9000 GB of disk storage, so you might have a chance to try out some 7-man tablebases. :-) Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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