Computer History — Prices
The following is a summary of prices of class A and B machines, derived from newsgroup articles and other easily accessible unofficial sources.
('*' after author means it also includes some benchmarks, or more system prices)
| Date | Newsgroup | Author | * | System | Price |
| search on "sun ultra hpc costs": | |||||
| 19971122 | comp.benchmarks | John McCalpin | * | SGI Origin 2000 (32-cpu) | $1.0M |
| Sun HPC 10000 (128-cpu) | $5.6M | ||||
| Sun HPC 10000 (64-cpu) | $2.8M | ||||
| search on "sun ultra hpc price": | |||||
| 19970923 | uwo.comp.sun.announce | Rick Baker | * | Sun Ult. Enter. 450 (250 MHz) | $22K |
| 19970623 | comp.sys.sgi.hardware | Adam Steffes | * | SGI Power Challenge R10000 (195MHz) | $50K+ |
| SGI Indy R5000 (180MHz) | $12K | ||||
| personal correspondance 20010109 | n/a | MM1 | * | dual Pentium-III or P-4 | 2600 to 3300 |
also check: http://www.proe.com/ or search for "price bench97 ratios"
Machines rated about 9 GFLOPs in 199712 (from Linpack Parallel file):
Sun Ultra HPC 6000 (250 MHz), 22 proc
Sun Ultra HPC 10000 (250 MHz), 22 proc
SGI Power Challenge (90 MHz), 40 proc
DEC 4100 5/400 (400 MHz) 24 proc
This page was written in the "embarrassingly readable" markup language RHTF, and was last updated on 2001 Jan 31.
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