And I am sure Iceland would find it much easier to do the machine room cooling than say Spain or the Southern USA
Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stephen mulcahy Sent: 10 December 2008 08:21 To: Vincent Diepeveen Cc: Beowulf Mailing List; Robert G. Brown Subject: Re: [Beowulf] For grins...India Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Maybe some decades from now all power per flop wasting supercomputers > will be located in India. > > In the long run, they're the only ones on the planet who can afford the > energy real cheap, > and supercomputers usually burn a lot more power per gflop than they > should, power6 up to factor 10. Iceland have energy literally pumping out of the ground - if they can sort out their connectivity to the US and Europe I think they'll quickly become the data centre to the world. Okay, they have some minor issues with seismic activity to deal with but you can't win em all. -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy Applepie Solutions Ltd. http://www.aplpi.com Registered in Ireland, no. 289353 (5 Woodlands Avenue, Renmore, Galway) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
