rent

am I right? does that equate to about $5,900 / week to rent that thing? sounds pretty affordable for all that power.

Slashdot style

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things...

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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!

confusing article #'s

It should say 50,000 DKK ($1 = 8.5 DKK) - north american format

OR

50.000 DKK ($1 = 8,5 DKK) - european format

Mixing numerical formats only confuses people.

Talk about confusing

Anybody read Danish?

ONLY 6 million?

"200 Gigaflop or 6 million instructions per..." uhhh isn't 6 million instructions per second == 6MHz ?

or simply ...

it could just say ~$5900US/Week

new Apple Mhz Myth

"uhhh isn't 6 million instructions per second == 6MHz?"

Yeah, Apple is going 'old school' numbers to confuse the masses some more with their Photoshop tests on a 6Mhz machine beating a 2.4Ghz P4.

6 is bigger than 2.4 right!

50.000 means 50

that means it cost 5.9 U. S. dollars to rent a week
use common numercial notaion next time guys

oh yeah.

$5.9 U.S.

seems VERY low to rent for a whole week of use.

You can't even rent a 3D renderfarm for $5/hr let alone a week.

Re: Slashdot style

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.."

Oooh! And that would be better in what way? Here's an idea for you: learn about Mac OS X. Learn about Pooch. Come back and talk to once you've done so.

That was...

I say, that was a joke, son!

Or do you not read slashdot and get the funny of the obligatory "Beowulf cluster" comment...

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big whoop

Or...

...you could rent your choice of an Indian or Chinese student for $2/day to do all your calculations!

MHz vs. IPS

Megahertz has nothing to do with instructions per second. Megahertz is the frequency of the signal in the chip, basically. A chip can do more than one instruction at once, and instructions are not tied to frequency. (Though generally speaking, if you up the MHz, you get more instructions out.)

YAWN

Xpensive for rent

the whole cluster only cost about 120,000 USD and their are renting for 5.7k per week. in 6 month they will be break even for the cluster. y not build it rather than rent it... and even can rent it like them if the company always have to use it