[Beowulf] Project Natick

[Jonathan Engwall]

The whitepaper says the acceleration processes 70 images per second per
watt.
More juice more better?
I will read the whole thing a little later tonight.

On Jun 6, 2018 1:47 PM, "Tomasz Rola" <rtomek at ceti.com.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:55:03PM +0200, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> > Reading into this a bit more on the Microsoft site, the intention is to
> > power these things using renewables such as wind or tidal power.
> > I've never been to Orkney, but as it famously has no trees ther eis
> plenty
> > of wind I am sure...
> >
> > Might make sense actually as they say for remote communities.
> > The cynic in me says why in the heck would a remote community NEED 12 or
> > more racks of servers, but this wont be for local use.
> > It makes sense in terms of having free cost power (OK - I know the true
> > cost is the construction of a wind turbine or two) and free cost cooling.
> > The total power is 240kW which is a respectable amount of power - not as
> > dense as big HPC installations these days, but pretty respectable.
>
> I maybe will read the source article if I find time, but from words of
> those who read it, it is basically:
>
> computer + salt water + wind turbine + Microsoft
>
> I suggest it will not go anywhere and is in fact some kind of
> marketing stunt.
>
> But I will wait a year and see if there is a reason to change my
> opinion.
>
> > One sincerely hopes that if things like this do get deployed in the ocean
> > then the steel module, the wind turbine and the servers are recycled at
> the
> > end of life and not just abandoned.
>
> Yeah.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola
>
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