He is off by a figure of 10,000.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> snip
>>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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