Supercomputer or a nice ride?

#1 prathapml

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Posted 29 November 2004 - 05:47 PM

Supercomputer or a nice ride?

With the price of supercomputing tumbling (you could acquire one of IBM's new Blue Gene supercomputer for a starting price of $1.5 million), businesses need to make choices. Do you need a supercomputing to run simulations that could predict environmental changes or the impact of economic stresses on financial markets (or for defense contractors, new kinds of WMDs) or a nice ride? What's your preference? The list price for a Blue Gene and a 986-horsepower Bugatti Veyron 16.4 are about the same...

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#2 Devil_666

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Posted 29 November 2004 - 06:16 PM

id buy a ferrarii and a nice house and have some money left over instead

#3 XtremeMaC

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Posted 29 November 2004 - 06:40 PM

how about a Koenigsegg CC, carrera gt, pagani zonda, saleen s7, murceliago roadster, SLR? or maybe a jet?

and i'd get a ... hmm crap they've stopped manufacturing http://www.go-l.com/home/index.htm **** it!
hmm ok alienware or voodoopc it is then

they're still super for me

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Posted 29 November 2004 - 07:11 PM

For me i ask myself, is a Asset or Liability.

A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket when i stop working.

Therefore, I would definitely go for the CAR! I am happy with with a Austin Martin 2004 model. It is a nice ride when u are driving on the autoban in germany. Really stable and quiet.

Correct me if i am wrong, but doesn't the top-end machines in particular, with dozens of processors, have a price tags north of $1 million.

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