$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 > > -- ------------------------------ Jeff Johnson Co-Founder Aeon Computing jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com www.aeoncomputing.com t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845 m: 619-204-9061 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite D - San Diego, CA 92117 High-performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf