Re: Power consumption of large computers.
In reply to #6346 Power consumption of large computers. by Steve Gibbons
Steve Gibbons [email removed] writes:
> The latest MP Crays will have up to 1024 (2048?) DECchip 21064s (AKA Alpha) in
> them. Each chip draws about 30 watts, as I remember. Serious computational
> abilities, and serious energy consumption... :) Big bucks, too (about $30M, I
> think, for the fully loaded model.)
Apparantly the Cray Y-MP has a far higher power consumption than the
new many-alpha cray (T3d?)....
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