<div dir="ltr">Who would take your bet?<div>With $50B I could maybe orchestrate a leveraged buy out of oh, say, Microsoft. I don't grok spending that on one computer complex. That is approximately NASA's budget for the ISS over 30 years (Wiki says $70B in current dollars).</div>
<div>Peter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellis@cse.psu.edu" target="_blank">ellis@cse.psu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 02/28/2014 12:49 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:<br>
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If you have some time, have a listen to this prodcast from<br>
HPC Wire where Nicole Hemsoth interviews some guy who claims<br>
he will have an exascale system by the end of the year, using 1000 MW<br>
of fuel cells and funding of $50 billion from the foreign currency<br>
arbitrage industry. And let's not forget the Exabyte of storage for good<br>
measure.<br>
<br>
"Meet the Man Who Says He’s Building the First Exascale System…in 2014"<br>
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<a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/soundbite/meet-man-building-2014-exascale-computer/" target="_blank">http://www.hpcwire.com/<u></u>soundbite/meet-man-building-<u></u>2014-exascale-computer/</a><br>
<br>
Well at least somebody going to sell a lot of kit.<br>
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Where can we place our bets?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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ellis<br>
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>
The Pennsylvania State University<br>
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