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Message 751261 - Posted: 10 May 2008, 23:55:34 UTC

This ladies and gentlemen, this is my dream computer http://cray.com/products/xt5/xt5h.html, thats the oe im getting if i win the lottery, lol
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Message 751267 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 0:18:46 UTC - in response to Message 751261.  
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Can I borrow it ?

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Message 751269 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 0:22:13 UTC

Check your fuses first - that baby needs 42KW :o)
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Message 751272 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 0:24:52 UTC
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Ya Know.... I'll bet that one of these new game computers has more horsepower. There is a project to run SETI on one of them.. There is a distributed computing effort as well using one of these platforms.

I remember seeing a big CRAY at RTP in North Carolina--By that time the desktop was almost as fast. The Illiac 4 took up a whole computer room and had 64 processors each doing 1 million instructions per second. It was banned from the University of Illinois campus for PC reasons wound up at NASA Ames. My MAC can probably do 30 times more crunching right now for $1000 in Capital cost.

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Message 751344 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 6:23:39 UTC - in response to Message 751267.  

Can I borrow it ?

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Message 751527 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 18:32:50 UTC - in response to Message 751261.  

This ladies and gentlemen, this is my dream computer http://cray.com/products/xt5/xt5h.html, thats the oe im getting if i win the lottery, lol



Imagine being wealthy enough to a) Buy it, b) Afford to run it, c) Dedicate it to crunching for SETI.

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Message 751537 - Posted: 11 May 2008, 19:08:21 UTC

If only I had the money.....

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Message 751916 - Posted: 12 May 2008, 11:19:06 UTC - in response to Message 751537.  

Imagine being wealthy enough to a) Buy it, b) Afford to run it, c) Dedicate it to crunching for SETI.

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If only I had the money.....


I agrea with both of you.
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