[Beowulf] I'm so glad I didn't buy one of these

Joseph Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Wed Jul 2 14:35:31 PDT 2014


Please pardon brevity and typos ... Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson at aeoncomputing.com> wrote:
>
> $100,000 (USD) per day to operate, users get billed.
>
>    "It's like a giant with a super body but without the software to
>    support its thinking soul," Chi said. Some users would need years or
>    even a decade to write the necessary code, he added.
>
> Ouch...

If you build it, they will (eventually) code ...?  Wasn't there a
movie about this?  'Supercomputer of dreams' or something?


More information about the Beowulf mailing list