On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Vincent Diepeveen <d...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On May 12, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > > > > > > I just ran across an interesting anecdote (in Malcolm Gladwell's > > "Outliers"). It's in the context of Bill Joy, who commented that > > using timesharing and interactive systems compared to traditional > > batch/card deck submission was like speed chess vs chess by mail. > > That interactivity facilitated his spending thousands of hours > > working with software. > > > [snip] > > > I am a BIG believer in personal computing… > > > > It's funny that you mention chess and personal computing at the same > time. > > Now i ran in 2003 Diep at a supercomputer. Diep is a chessprogram. > > With respect to the previous mail i wrote regarding the university > Utrecht, until recently neary every year in the top50 universities of > this planet, > it's interesting to mention that at university, after a while i was > allowed to run my chessprogram. > > Yet other students when they tried to launch my chessprogram, it got > killed. > Official reason given: it was eating too much RAM. > > In fact it was eating 8 MB ram. All machines had 64MB ram or more. > Reason to eat 8 MB is that i had discovered this to run a lot faster > at the unix machines (partly HP 60Mhz). > > Not sure whether this had to do with a caching issue of the processor > or other circumstances. > > Yet i argue that centralized supercomputing is really slow way to > develop your software. Personal computing is simply a faster way to > develop your codes. > > The real disadvantage of supercomputers is that you always have to > wait for weeks if not months for a batch of a few hours to get executed. > In that sense supercomputing is a lot slower than chess by mail, > where you have 1 day a move on average. > Vincent then why not develop your project for BOINC at least its distributed computing, yes youll still have to wait for the results but its getting crunched on either a graphics card or cpu depends on how you code it.
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