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Traditionally the price of Supercomputers have been at least 10 times the price of standard large mainframe computers of the same time period. The price also varied with the model of Supercomputer in a given line (e.g. economy or standard CPU, quantity of memory, speed grade of memory). Early Supercomputers were high performance uniprocessors or high performance uniprocessors with low performance input/output multiprocessors. Only much later did Supercomputer multiprocessors appear using massive numbers of inexpensive commodity microprocessors. However that factor of 10 in price has generally followed.

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Herman Homenick

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