[rescue] Re: Cheapest Cray?
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Apr 26 15:15:44 CDT 2004
On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:10 PM, ghub005 wrote:
> I'd argue that the cheapest Cray systems these days would be an SGI
> Origin
> 2000 or a Sun E10k (both of which are getting down towards hobbiest
> prices).
> They may not have Cray badges or run UNICOS, but the engineering
> influence
> is undeniable.
While you are absolutely correct, I'm a Cray PVP purist. Their MPP
machines are certainly nice, but there's nothing like a
YMP-architecture vector processor. And I'm pretty sure that's what
Bill had in mind.
-Dave
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