Re: That thorny pricing question again ...

Thomas Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After the shock of the Earth Simulator, the SC2003 proceedings have
> fair numbers of papers being enthusiastic about contemporary Japanese
> vector supercomputers.
> 
> What I can't find, anywhere, is any indication of how much the standard
> of comparison, the 8-CPU NEC SX6, actually costs.  It's compared with
> 32-CPU Power4 machines which, since they also run databases and TPC.org
> collects price-per-TPMc figures, 

I'd also be interested if anyone knows the list or edu price of the NEC
SX-6i.  A mention:
http://www.sw.nec.co.jp/hpc/sx-e/sx6i/top.html

My attempts to extract similar from NEC have failed, and as far as
I can tell Cray only resells the SX-6.

I was routinely ignored at the Nec booth at SC2003 8-(.

Basically the same single die vector cpu (32GB/sec peak to main memory)
in a deskside er dorm fridge size box.  

-- 
Bill Broadley
Mathematics
UC Davis