[Coco] $1,000 supercomputer

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Fast Crays supposedly are in the range of 2+ teraflops, but certainly 
not for under $1kDollar.

An eMac should do 4 gigaflops; you can get those for $800 new, but it's 
nowhere near 100 gigaflops for $1kDollar.

Anybody have specs on the #gigaflops for a G5?

On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 01:58  PM, Bootstrap Bill wrote:


> The following was published in 1999. It claims that we could have a 

> $1,000

> computer capable of processing 100 billion instructions per second 

> within 18

> months. It's been over five years and still no word from the company. 

> Has

> anyone heard anything about this? I want one!

>

>

> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/index.html

>

>

> A $1000 supercomputer?

>

> June 15, 1999

> Web posted at: 8:46 a.m. EDT (1246 GMT)

>

> by Mark Brownstein

>

> (IDG) -- Within 18 months, you may be able to put the equivalent of 

> today's

> supercomputer on your desktop--for about $1000. The CPU, long the 

> heart of

> all PCs, may be an unnecessary component in tomorrow's high-performance

> computers.

>

>

> The new computer will be able to process 100 billion instructions per

> second, according to Kent Gilson, chief technical officer of Star 

> Bridge

> Systems. Company representatives discussed their plans for a high-end 

> PC

> this week while announcing HAL-300GrW1, a "hypercomputer" that is said 

> to be

> 60,000 times as fast as a 350-MHz Pentium, and many times as fast as 

> IBM's

> supercomputer Pacific Blue. (The test used to measure the HAL's 

> performance

> was different from the measure used for Pacific Blue, so exact 

> comparisons

> are difficult.)


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