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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by tluyben2 on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:52AM (#11938387)
This happened a lot with Sun around that time; I bought 10 E450s for fun from one of the hosters who did exactly that and since then went bankrupt. Great, unbreakable machines.
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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by ams6110 on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:43PM (#11939197)
Bubble dot-com companies rich with VC cash did the same thing. Built massively overprovisioned data centers with expensive Sun servers (because Sun == Internet at that time) and never actually had the traffic to justify even a fraction of it.
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