[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Phil Stracchino]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> It could prove you could do it, and get venture capital. The fancy interconnect
> would be on the first run of boards, which would be made to seed the market
> and a second round of funding obtained. 
> 
> Basicly what these people failed to do. Of course we have no idea why, they
> may have found techology problems, lost their source of processor chips, run 
> up against patent issues, fought among themselves, or any number of reasons,
> probably most of which we will never know.

Based on my reading, timing killed them.  They had a good product, sold
75 supercomputers but hadn't quite attained independent profitability
yet, needed one more round of venture capital, and found none available
as the economy imploded.


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