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

[Caio Freitas]

Well, to think that it's been an issue even with game consoles like PS3,
and people have yet not learned... :/


2014-07-02 18:37 GMT-03:00 James Cuff <james_cuff at harvard.edu>:

>
> 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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