<div dir="ltr">Well, to think that it's been an issue even with game consoles like PS3, and people have yet not learned... :/<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-02 18:37 GMT-03:00 James Cuff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james_cuff@harvard.edu" target="_blank">james_cuff@harvard.edu</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div>Let this be a lesson to us all. <div><br></div><div>Repeat after me:</div><div><br></div><div>"Top 500 scores mean nothing!" </div>
<div><br></div><div>As a community we have to stop this madness! 100k / day. Sigh. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span></span><div>
<br></div><div>J. </div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Jeff Johnson <<a href="mailto:jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com" target="_blank">jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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$100,000 (USD) per day to operate, users get billed.<br>
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"It's like a giant with a super body but without the software to<br>
support its thinking soul," Chi said. Some users would need years or<br>
even a decade to write the necessary code, he added.<br>
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Ouch...<br>
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On 7/2/14, 2:21 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote:<br>
> On 07/ 3/14 04:17 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:<br>
>> If they want to spend a bazillion dollars to run hpl faster than anyone<br>
>> else who am I to stop them.<br>
>><br>
>> If however they want to do real science perhaps they need to architect<br>
>> something more manageable.<br>
>><br>
>> They should bust that thing up into 3 or 4 clusters.<br>
>><br>
>> On 7/2/14, 2:11 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:<br>
>>> China's world-beating supercomputer fails to impress some potential<br>
>>> clients<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-imp" target="_blank">http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-imp</a><br>
>>><br>
> replied too fast the above link gets cut<br>
> So paste "ress-some-potential-clients" at the end or here it is again<br>
> <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-impress-some-potential-clients" target="_blank">http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-impress-some-potential-clients</a><br>
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