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Get Your Very Own Supercomputer

September 18, 2008 By Sam Sloan 4 Comments

Have you always desired the day would come when you could sit in the comfort of your own home and begin cruising the Net with your very own supercomputer? Well my friend, that day has come and if you have a spare $25,000 (USD) just lying around, you too can own the Cray-Windows CX1 Supercompter.

No longer the domain of NSA, the CIA, or NASA, the supercomputer, thanks to new and innovative technologies, is now within the grasp of many everyday users. While $25K sounds like a lot of cash, when you think that just 5 years ago you couldn’t touch one of these babies for less than several millions of dollars, then $25K seems like chump-change.

Read on!

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  1. Lejon from Chandler says

    September 18, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    Of course, you can always build your own supercomputer for around $1200.00, if you’re really jonesing for one.

    See how here

    Reply
  2. Chris in Seattle says

    September 19, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Sounded great… until I read it ran Windows… no thanks!

    Reply
  3. Casualobserver says

    September 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    My god…this is Gnometastic!

    Reply
  4. Jabberwocky says

    September 29, 2008 at 1:16 am

    Gee and here I already had a supercomputer with my G4 Powerbook since the G4 processor was classified as a supercomputer chip.

    Reply

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