On 2/7/06, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > But all that aside, I still want to ask the question: how much more > does the 16-way Altix 330 cost than the 8-way dual core Opteron? > What's the price-performance? According to http://www.storejrt.com/a330_bundles.html a 16P Altix 330 costs around $75k (US). I haven't looked recently but the Tyan VX50 based 16-core Opterons cost less than that (maybe $50k?)