Comment Re:Pentium 4.... non xeon? (Score 1) 417
I don't understand where the mac price/performance figures are coming from. Last time I checked, the cheapest I could get a dual Mac G5 2.0GHz from the apple store, I ended up wiht a $2,770 price tag. From Dell, I can get nearly the exact same setup (slightly smaller HD, but it's SCSI) with a dual Xeon 2.4GHz for $2,396. That means that every dual G5 2.0 is 1.156 times as expensive as a comparable dual Xeon 2.4.
That means a 2200 processor cluster of G5's costs $3,047,000. For that money you could get a 2543 process cluster of Xeon 2.4's, which would easily beat the mac cluster based on extrapolation of the supercomputer ranking data.
That means a 2200 processor cluster of G5's costs $3,047,000. For that money you could get a 2543 process cluster of Xeon 2.4's, which would easily beat the mac cluster based on extrapolation of the supercomputer ranking data.
