Final Remarks on BSC

• Cost-Effective Means to Problem Solving

  • Price is 5% of comparable supercomputers
  • Performance 30-50% if comm:comput high
  • Performance on par if comput:comm high

• Permits Better Utilization of Other CCR Resources: SGI Origin and IBM SP

• Investigate Higher Cost/Bandwidth Networks

• Investigate Intel Beowulf for CCR Users

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