[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?
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