07-05-2008, 17:58
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Re: Nasa's new computer is bigger than yours..
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Originally Posted by Zeph
Well I worked out that 5120 Quad Core CPUs would be needed to make the 20480 Cores stated, and if you used the top end Xeons which run at 3.2GHz, they retail at about £800, even with a huge bulk discount, say, making them £500 each that would still be £2.56M just for the CPUs!
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