Yeah, sticker shock!!! But don't you *just* love that new 'puter smell?
Sparky
LOL, I remember when a single processor, single user PC based CAD/CAM workstation cost that much, and now even the the most lowly $399 econobox would blow it away nicely on almost any benchmark suite you would care to throw at them.
Ah ... we can all dream ehhh? I found this picture browsing a 300 node 'Beowulf cluster' called Medusa here, this is the very pretty coloured wiring of a network switch. Do I cut the red wire, or the blue?........
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Ah ... we can all dream ehhh? I found this picture browsing a 300 node 'Beowulf cluster' called Medusa here, this is the very pretty coloured wiring of a network switch. Do I cut the red wire, or the blue?........
A chain saw through the lot might do the trick. aka Die Hard. :)
On a serious note though, do you think that they will let us install BOINC and attach to Einstein, give that this is owned by the LHC comunity.
RE: Yeah, sticker
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LOL, I remember when a single processor, single user PC based CAD/CAM workstation cost that much, and now even the the most lowly $399 econobox would blow it away nicely on almost any benchmark suite you would care to throw at them.
Seems pretty reasonably priced in that light. ;-)
Alinator
Ah ... we can all dream ehhh?
)
Ah ... we can all dream ehhh? I found this picture browsing a 300 node 'Beowulf cluster' called Medusa here, this is the very pretty coloured wiring of a network switch. Do I cut the red wire, or the blue?........
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Ah ... we can all dream
)
A chain saw through the lot might do the trick. aka Die Hard. :)
On a serious note though, do you think that they will let us install BOINC and attach to Einstein, give that this is owned by the LHC comunity.