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" <rto...@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 > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > _______________________________________________ > 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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