<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">write the dame question down this time.<br class=""></blockquote>The question was well known (“What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?”), it was merely ill-formed.<div class="">It clearly didn’t obey the supposed first law of court interrogation: “Never ask a witness a question for which you do not know the answer.”<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From lower in the thread, I am amused that these machines are re-using Meiko product names (CS-1, CS-2) :-)<div><br class=""></div><div>-- Jim<br class="">James Cownie <<a href="mailto:jcownie@gmail.com" class="">jcownie@gmail.com</a>><br class="">Mob: +44 780 637 7146<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Jun 2020, at 16:46, Douglas Eadline <<a href="mailto:deadline@eadline.org" class="">deadline@eadline.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 13/6/20 10:11 pm, Jonathan Engwall wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is the strange part. How to utilize such a vast cpu?<br class="">Storage should be the back end, unless the use is an api. In this case a<br class="">gargantuan cpu sits in back, or so it seems.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">My guess is that this sits connected to the server, they load an<br class="">algorithm on to it and they shovel data at it over the vast number of<br class="">network cards and eventually it comes back with an answer. Hopefully<br class="">their acceptance test will say "42".<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The 7.5 million year runtime might be a bit of a drag, but<br class="">let's give it a shot, and write the dame question down this time.<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Doug<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">--<br class=""> Chris Samuel : <a href="http://www.csamuel.org/" class="">http://www.csamuel.org/</a> : Berkeley, CA, USA<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" class="">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br class="">To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit<br class=""><a href="https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" class="">https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Doug<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" class="">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br class="">To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a href="https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" class="">https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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