Now if we all chip in.....
20-10-2004, 15:09
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Now if we all chip in.....
http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/oct/20nec.htm
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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)
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Wonder if the frame rate on UT2004 would be any good on it 
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20-10-2004, 15:16
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
Bugger me that's an impressive bit of kit.
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20-10-2004, 15:17
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
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So how many pennies would I need to save to afford one of these? 
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20-10-2004, 15:32
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
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So how many pennies would I need to save to afford one of these? |
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The monthly rental of the SX-8 starts from approximately ¥1,170, 000, and shipment will commence in December 2004.
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and that's about £5,970. 758  per month lol
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20-10-2004, 16:14
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
Do you think it would be any good as a mail server
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20-10-2004, 16:23
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
Might be, shall we send a link to the head of NTL as a hint 
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20-10-2004, 16:26
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Re: Now if we all chip in.....
Could put it to use crunching a few BOINC WUs 
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