1 Sep
2000
1 Sep
'00
11:07 p.m.
-> > if your going to post this at least a brief description for
-> those of us
-> > that
-> > really dont care to navigate ebay.
-> >
-> > Allison
->
-> Agreed!
->
-> However, it's a Cray Y-MP C90 and they want a starting bid of only
-> $35,000.00 on it. Oddly enough, no one has bid yet. Though that is
-> undoubtedly because it's only been up for about three hours.
I think the best part of this post is the link in the listing, Big Iron
in the Steel City.
NSF Awards $45 Million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for
"Terascale" Computing
An unprecedented system located in Pittsburgh will be the most powerful
in the world available for public research.
http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2000/terascale-08-03-00.html
Compaq, 682 AlphaServers, Tru64 UNIX, NSF = 6 Teraflops anyone?