[rescue] ooh, pretty

[Thomas Gallaway]

> On Tuesday 19 November 2002 8:52 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> > > hmm I've seen r10k's 195mhz for cheaper or equal value...
> > > This one only has 75mhz...
> > > just keep on digging in the deep e-bay grounds of neat hardware...
> >
> >    This isn't an R10K though...this is an R8K.  R8Ks are particularly
> > interesting processors, and machines built around them are
> > particularly rare.
> 
> A researcher I was acquanted with used to run large compute jobs taking 
> several weeks to finish. She switched to a dual R10K Octane and 1 run 
> later switched back to a Power Indigo2 (with a 75Mhz R8K).
> 
> Don't fall into the trap of assuming Mhz=speed (Dave obviously knows 
> this) ... a quote from a supercomputing centre looking at the R8000 
> said that it was half the clock speed of the R4400 but 4 times the 
> speed (probably just looking at fp perf).

Cool... didnt know that... (you learn every day) hehe....