Re: can buy single commodity 192GF servers today (Score 1)

Lets face it- 860GF as a super computer? I don't think so. A quad quad core intel 7240 3GHz node is 192GF (4 ops per clock* 16 cores* 3GHz): your mileage may vary... Six of these systems would cost less than $100K and give 1.1TF. An infiniband interconnect would cost less than $10K. We are talking a half of a rack of commodity computers... Any staff from a foreign embassy could purchase 6 of these delivered to a PO box (or warehouse address) in the US and ship them through a diplomatic pouch to their homeland- poof 1.1TF "super computer" Any US vendor would have difficulty figuring out export control on a qty 6 procurement (not to mention that they could use 6 different vendors).