On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:07:20 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>A maxed out z196 with 80 processors & rating of 50BIPS goes for $28M or
>$560,000/BIPS
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>as I've mentioned several times, by comparison IBM has base list price
>of $1815 for e5-2600 blade rated at 527BIPS 

So you are saying that a sub $2K blade has roughly 10 times raw compute power 
as an 80 way z196?

I'd be interested in references to support that.

Dana

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