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Contortionietzsche t1_iwgark3 wrote

Reply to comment by MattLogi in AMD Now Powers 101 of the World's Fastest Supercomputers by Avieshek

True. Frontier is for the US department of energy right? The company that bought the E10K probably was not. AFAIK the E10K requires a 100 amp power line and back in those days (late 90’s) I don’t think performance per watt was a thing they worried about, could be wrong though.

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Dodgy_Past t1_iwgrgw5 wrote

I was selling sun servers back then and customers never considered power consumption.

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