[Beowulf] Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Mon Jan 23 17:06:41 PST 2012


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On 24/01/12 12:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

> But now the important question, what's price of bluegene per teraflop?
> 
> It's let's have a look, around a 500 euro or so for a Radeon HD7970  
> card.

What does that matter if you can't power or cool a similar performance
GPU system?   Let alone have any applications that will actually take
advantage of it.

cheers,
Chris
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