[geeks] Re: HP EV7 performance

[Gavin Hubbard]

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Hmm... I'm reading the news bulletin from HP about their EV7
announcement. Heh. Apart from the fact that the EV7 has an integrated
interconnetion interface, they build'em together as a tourus.
They even claim 37 TeraFlops on their SC1280 supercomputer.

Major woodie here.

/Bjorn
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<<I accidentally posted the following message to the resuce list, sorry for the duplication>>

I asked the HP enterprise accounts manager for New Zealand why HP killed the 
Alpha. He told me "...as soon as the Alpha was no longer twice as fast as the 
competition we saw no point in continuing development..."

I've never understood this line of reasoning. IMO the whole 'point' of the 
Alpha was the architecture, scalability, and code-base. The extra raw 
performance delta was just gravy.

Damn suits.

--Gavin