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Supercomputer or a nice ride?

With the price of supercomputing tumbling (you could acquire one of IBM's new Blue Gene supercomputer for a starting price of $1.5 million), businesses need to make choices.
Written by ZDNet UK, Contributor
With the price of supercomputing tumbling (you could acquire one of IBM's new Blue Gene supercomputer for
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a starting price of $1.5 million), businesses need to make choices. Do you need a supercomputing to run simulations that could predict environmental changes or the impact of economic stresses on financial
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markets (or for defense contractors, new kinds of WMDs) or a nice ride? What's you preference? The list price for a Blue Gene and a 986-horsepower Bugatti Veyron 16.4 are about the same...
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