RE: IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server

["Hart, Doug" <Doug.Hart@xxxxxxx>]

That's how Google work.  They run over 450,000 off the shelf cheap
servers.

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Doug Hart
 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server



In other words, what would the Price/Performance be of a cluster of the
lowest priced individual systems with the performance of the most
powerful single system.



Charles Wilt

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