> Or you are going to claim that universities and government buys a > 12288 > processor system because they NEED it? > > Comeon, they spend that 50 million euro because they CAN afford > spending 50 > million euro and > then have a look what they can get it and whether they can end up high > in > the sporthall top500.
I don't know about people spending 50 million euro, but people spending the equivalent in dollars do so because they NEED it. The government here doesn't just toss money out to get on the top500 list. Major machines in the US are typically oversubscribed, and often heavily so. Keith -- Keith D. Underwood Scalable Computing Systems Senior Member of Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf