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Reading between the lines, it sounds like a Tyan whitebox with Power8 processors, Nvidia GPUs, and Mellanox NICs running Linux. Might be good for HPC.

Probably will cost $50,000 and run as fast a new smartphone...

Don't forget the $30000 every year thereafter for the maintenance contract.

Don't worry, you can pay $1,000/day to unlock a new core when you need the power of two smartphones.

Don't forget the million dollar annual license for their "top notch" coffcoff* sw

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