Supercomputer On the Cheap 133
jbrodkin writes "You don't need Ivy League-type cash to get a supercomputer anymore. Organizations with limited financial resources are snatching up IBM supercomputers now that Big Blue has lowered the price of Blue Gene/L. Alabama-Birmingham and other universities that previously couldn't afford such advanced technology are using supercomputers to cure diseases at the protein level and to solve equally challenging problems. IBM dropped the price of the Blue Gene/L to $800K late last year before releasing a more powerful model, Blue Gene/P, last month. Sales of Blue Gene/L have more than doubled since then, bringing supercomputing into more corners of the academic and research worlds."
"Supercomputer" (Score:3, Insightful)
Peter
Normal business... (Score:3, Insightful)
Having said that, I don't suppose nearly half price is that bad an offer, even if $800K isn't exactly 'cheap'!
Re:Normal business... (Score:2, Insightful)
What with the IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes [slashdot.org] story earlier it looks like IBM is pimping out their wares here on Slashdot.
They are probably behind the milfy bewbs too (is it too hard to put those two word into a lameness filter?)
Taking about supercomputers... (Score:3, Insightful)
Wow moderators, since when are old lame jokes redundant? (He's the first to post our beloved Beowulf-phraseme in this discussion.)
And he's even right, clusters are the most frequent architecture in the TOP500 [wikipedia.org]:
academic and research? try finance (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:"Supercomputer" (Score:5, Insightful)
Supercompters aren't going anywhere fast.