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_c...@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.john...@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 >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------ >> 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 >> > > > -- > > -- > dr. james cuff, assistant dean for research computing, harvard university > | division of science | thirty eight oxford street, cambridge. ma. 02138 | +1 > 617 384 7647 | http://rc.fas.harvard.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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