> The higher-end of the pricing scale we heard for these systems was in the $120-125K range. We heard of others in the $100K range, but those prices may be impacted by list versus deal discounts. It is highly unlikely these will sell for under $80-85K.

Reaching out to People Ops to see if I can spend a bit above my professional development limit, just this once.

I have zero idea of what I'd do with it except programming in Python and doing my e-mail and browsing, but I would still love to have one under my desk.

It's a monster at 19-bit and smaller floating point computation, and at moving memory around to feed the ALUs.

Apart from that it would be like using an old-school Cray to run single-threaded, non-SIMD applications. It'd be a waste of money and electricity.

> it would be like using an old-school Cray

I'd totally do that as well. Don't judge me. ;-)