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

[James Cuff]

Let this be a lesson to us all.

Repeat after me:

"Top 500 scores mean nothing!"

As a community we have to stop this madness!  100k / day.  Sigh.

J.

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 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...
>
> On 7/2/14, 2:21 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> > On 07/ 3/14 04:17 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >> If they want to spend a bazillion dollars to run hpl faster than anyone
> >> else who am I to stop them.
> >>
> >> If however they want to do real science perhaps they need to architect
> >> something more manageable.
> >>
> >> They should bust that thing up into 3 or 4 clusters.
> >>
> >> On 7/2/14, 2:11 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> >>> China's world-beating supercomputer fails to impress some potential
> >>> clients
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-imp
> >>>
> > replied too fast the above link gets cut
> > So paste "ress-some-potential-clients" at the end or here it is again
> >
> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-impress-some-potential-clients
> >
> >
>
>
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