You can now buy a Cray T3E-1200E Supercomputer on Ebay.
For those of you who don't know a great deal about computers this is shit-hot. It's a multi processor machine (about 120 in this baby, each at around 600Mhz) and is used for complex scientific calculations.
If you're interested the bidding starts at $350,000 which isn't too bad for a machine that cost $3,500,000 in June 1999! Happy bidding.
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The Williams formula 1 team uses something like that in conjunction with their sponsor HP, they measure their data in !!TERRABYTES!! I don't know how many gigabytes that is but it's alot, apparently they used about 1.3tb just for the first stage of Aerodynamic data, crapskies
Apparently a terabyte is 1024 gigabytes!
If you want to top that go for a petabyte, which is 1024 terabytes.
wikipedia entry
Well it went unsold but they've now knocked of $25,000 off the buy it now price. I'm gonna wait till it get's down to a penny.
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