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

[Jeff Johnson]

On 7/2/14, 2:35 PM, Joseph Landman wrote:
> 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?
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
Question is, can you develop code before the platform is obsolete. If it
takes a decade, his assumption, to develop code by that time it'll suck
more power than its worth to keep in production.