<story><title>$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/2999-mac-pro-to-go-on-sale-in-december-in-all-its-dalek-resembling-glory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattRogish</author><text>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.&lt;p&gt;Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD[extrapolating from 2].&lt;p&gt;Mind boggling what to expect 10 years from now.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cray&lt;/a&gt;
[2]&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/15/cray_flogs_x1_supercomputer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2002&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;cray_flogs_x1_superc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KVFinn</author><text>&amp;gt;Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD&lt;p&gt;Each D700 GPU is 3.5 terraflops. These are the same hardware as the 7970 which currently retails for 300 dollars.  So it&amp;#x27;s even more impressive -- 7 teraflops could be nearly an order of magnitude less than that!</text></comment>
<story><title>$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/2999-mac-pro-to-go-on-sale-in-december-in-all-its-dalek-resembling-glory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattRogish</author><text>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.&lt;p&gt;Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD[extrapolating from 2].&lt;p&gt;Mind boggling what to expect 10 years from now.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cray&lt;/a&gt;
[2]&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/15/cray_flogs_x1_supercomputer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2002&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;cray_flogs_x1_superc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaysonL</author><text>And the Mac Pro even looks like a shrunken Cray (minus the included seating).</text></comment>