Price-Performance
Ratios
| Caveats |
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Not so
easy to get prices for supercomputers. Some quotes are old.
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Myrinet
estimates were done some time ago.
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$/MF |
| Intel
Fast Ethernet |
(single
processor) |
10-13 |
|
(dual
processor) |
worse |
| Myrinet |
(single
processor) |
~27 |
|
(dual
processor) |
~22 |
AMD
may be better than Intel, but dual processing not yet available.
| 2/99 |
64
node SGI origin (250 MHz)
1.4 million @ 113 MF/node |
193 |
| 2/99 |
44
node Cray T3E
$1.9 million @ 90 MF/node |
480 |
|
256
node IBM SP Power 3
@
173 MF/node |
166
(91 discount) |
|
Compaq
Alpha Server SC 64CPU
$2.7 million @ 280 MF/node |
150 |
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