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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I find this whole thing dubious as
well, but there is a LOT of money being made by high-frequency
traders. Enough that a $50 billion expenditure could probably be
made back in a few years. I don't know any exact numbers that
these HFTers are bringing in (many of them are super secretive),
but it's definitely billions in profit per year. As someone who
lives and works in the NYC metro area, I've seen how much money
some of these big investment banks have, and the HFTs are bringing
in money faster than anyone else right now, so $50 billion isn't
outside the realm of possibility. If anyone can do this that's not
a government, I would expect it to be someone in the HFT world. <br>
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Prentice<br>
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On 02/28/2014 02:22 PM, Peter St. John wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ellis
H. Wilson III <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ellis@cse.psu.edu" target="_blank">ellis@cse.psu.edu</a>></span>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hpcwire.com/soundbite/meet-man-building-2014-exascale-computer/"
target="_blank">http://www.hpcwire.com/soundbite/meet-man-building-2014-exascale-computer/</a><br>
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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
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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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