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Below you will find the cost of a number of the top 50 supercomputers
from the list provided.
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4. NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
United States Columbia - SGI Altix 1.5 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
SGI
Cost: $50 million
?The Unites States space agency NASA has unveiled the world's fastest
supercomputer at its Ames Research Centre in California, where
India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla worked for years, in honour of the
seven crew members of spacecraft Columbia which crashed last year.
Dubbed 'Project Columbia', the $50 million computer built by Silicon
Graphics Inc. is composed of 10,240 processors in 20 units, making it
one of the world's most powerful supercomputing systems.
The system, which was unveiled on Tuesday, was built and installed at
the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames in less than 120
days.
Silicon Graphics also claimed that NASA's new Intel Itanium 2
processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most powerful computer
in the world.?
Rediff: October 27, 2004
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/oct/27supercomp.htm
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6. Sandia National Laboratories
Red Storm
Cost: $90 million
?Red Storm, Sandia National Laboratories? new supercomputer, reaches
41.5 teraflops. The cost: $90 million. By the end of 2005, according
to a Sandia news release, the machine should be capable of 100
teraflops, which would make it the world?s second fastest
supercomputer.?
TechComm | JUNE-JULY 2005
http://www.techcommjournal.org/PDFSVol3No3/16toptenTC11.pdf
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18. Los Alamos National Laboratory
ASCI Q - AlphaServer SC45, 1.25 GHz
Cost $215 million
ASCI Q Facts
?Q will operate at a peak speed of 30 trillion operations per second.
Bycomparison, everyone on the planet would have to perform 5,000
calculationsin one second to keep up with Q.
Q will have 33 terabytes of memory,equivalent to 55,000 CDs.
Q will cost $215 million.
Q can do in one day what a current,high-end personal computer can do in
60 years.?
Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://www.lanl.gov/news/pdf/HighPerf_Computing.pdf
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7. Earth Simulator Center ? Japan: $250 million
Los Alamos National Laboratory - $215 million
?In recent rankings of the world's supercomputers by the University of
Tennessee, the Virginia Tech installation held third place, behind
Japan's $250 million Earth Simulator Center and Hewlett-Packard's $215
million installation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The most
eye-popping feature of Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" installation is its
$7 million price tag.?
Server Pipeline: January 24, 2005
http://www.serverpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17501634
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Rank 40: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
?Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has ordered a $24.5 million
Hewlett-Packard supercomputer, the world's largest that is based on a
Linux architecture. The computer will consist of 1,400 Intel
processors with an expected total peak performance of more than 8.3
teraflops. It will be 30 times faster, have 50 times more disk space,
and hold 10 times as much memory as PNNL's current supercomputer, one
of the world's most powerful when installed in 1997.?
http://www.pnl.gov/edo/newsletter/backissues/may2002.stm
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The Blue Gene/L (Rank 1) Supercomputer together with the ASC Purple
(Rank 3) cost $290 million.
?Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue
Gene/L supercomputer Thursday and announced it's broken its own record
again for the world's fastest supercomputer.?
?The ASC Purple is built from more conventional IBM server products.
Together, ASC Purple and Blue Gene/L cost $290 million.?
?IBM sells the Blue Gene machines for about $2 million per
1,024-processor rack, but it also rents access to Blue Gene and other
supercomputers for those who don't want to buy a full machine.?
ZDNet: October 27, 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5918025.html
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The issue of cost and time
?Construction of supercomputers is an awesome and very expensive task.
To get a machine from the laboratory to the market may take several
years. The most recent development costs of supercomputers varied
between 150 to 500 million dollars or more. You can imagine that a
project like that draws on all the resources a company has. This is
one of the major reasons that the development of a supercomputer is
kept very hush-hush. The latest supers are only possible to create
with the help of governments and one or more large size companies.
Using a supercomputer is expensive as well. As a user, you are charged
according to the time you use the system what is expressed in the
number of processor (CPU) seconds your program runs. In the recent
past, Cray (one of the first supercomputers) time was $1,000 per hour.
The use of this "Cray time" was a very common way to express computer
costs in time and dollars.
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/supercomputers.htm
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