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Paul K

20-10-2004 15:09

Now if we all chip in.....

http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/oct/20nec.htm

Quote:

Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp, on Wednesday, announced the launch of the SX series model "SX-8," the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65TFLOPS (one trillion floating point operations per second)

Wonder if the frame rate on UT2004 would be any good on it ;)

Chris P Bitz

20-10-2004 15:16

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Bugger me that's an impressive bit of kit.

Maggy

20-10-2004 15:17

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/oct/20nec.htm

Wonder if the frame rate on UT2004 would be any good on it ;)

So how many pennies would I need to save to afford one of these? :)

Paul K

20-10-2004 15:32

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incognitas

So how many pennies would I need to save to afford one of these? :)

Quote:

The monthly rental of the SX-8 starts from approximately ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¥1,170, 000, and shipment will commence in December 2004.

and that's about ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£5,970. 758 :D per month lol

altis

20-10-2004 16:14

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Do you think it would be any good as a mail server ;)

Paul K

20-10-2004 16:23

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Might be, shall we send a link to the head of NTL as a hint :p:

MovedGoalPosts

20-10-2004 16:26

Re: Now if we all chip in.....

Could put it to use crunching a few BOINC WUs :erm:

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