coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) (09/20/90)
In article <1990Sep13.205858.22817@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >>>year's machine. If you wait 20 years, you'll be able to buy a Cray for 20 years is a little overestimation I think. >>>$100. >> Where can I put my name on the waiting list. 8-) > >Better be sure you have a couple of extra bedrooms and $70K a year for >the two Cray engineers who will come to live with you. After all, it >wouldn't be a Cray if it could run for more than ten minutes without >a hardware fault, now would it? :-) "They" have come out with a CRAY on a RISC chip on a card for macs (says a friend of mine) for ~$21,000. The supposedly are going to order one for modeling in the Biology dept. here at Purdue. (My friend works there on macs). I don't know anything else but You can all send him mail. (He can thank me for this later) he is here at : hilbish@en.ecn.purdue.edu (128.46.129.59) P.S. Don't mention my name, that should really confuse him ;) (just kidding) coxr@en.ecn.purdue.edu American Online : Rich Kid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And the kids they dance, they shake their bones" -GD peace, -Rich
josip@ra.src.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric) (09/20/90)
In article <1990Sep20.044612.27210@ecn.purdue.edu> coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) writes: >In article <1990Sep13.205858.22817@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >>>>year's machine. If you wait 20 years, you'll be able to buy a Cray for $100. > > 20 years is a little overestimation I think. > > "They" have come out with a CRAY on a RISC chip on a card for macs (says a >friend of mine) for ~$21,000. [stuff deleted] I've recently read about a Levco board for Mac II featuring i860 processor (theoretical peak 80 MFLOPs) for $5,500. And of course, Spectral Innovations has DSP32C based boards for Mac II or SE/30 (25 MFLOPs peak) at similar prices. While 80 MFLOPs is not quite Cray teritory, it is very, very good... at a reasonable price... Of course, I am only quoting an article I saw... -- Josip Loncaric / SRC / U. of Maryland / <josip@ra.src.umd.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------- ! Today's Special: Opinions....$0.02 each ! --------------------------------------------------------------
bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (09/24/90)
/ hpislx:comp.sys.mac.misc / coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) / 10:46 pm Sep 19, 1990 / In article <1990Sep13.205858.22817@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >>>year's machine. If you wait 20 years, you'll be able to buy a Cray for 20 years is a little overestimation I think. >>>$100. >> Where can I put my name on the waiting list. 8-) > >Better be sure you have a couple of extra bedrooms and $70K a year for >the two Cray engineers who will come to live with you. After all, it >wouldn't be a Cray if it could run for more than ten minutes without >a hardware fault, now would it? :-) "They" have come out with a CRAY on a RISC chip on a card for macs (says a friend of mine) for ~$21,000. The supposedly are going to order one for modeling in the Biology dept. here at Purdue. (My friend works there on macs). I don't know anything else but You can all send him mail. (He can thank me for this later) he is here at : hilbish@en.ecn.purdue.edu (128.46.129.59) P.S. Don't mention my name, that should really confuse him ;) (just kidding) coxr@en.ecn.purdue.edu American Online : Rich Kid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And the kids they dance, they shake their bones" -GD peace, -Rich ----------