On 7/2/14, 2:35 PM, Joseph Landman wrote: > Please pardon brevity and typos ... Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> >> 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... > If you build it, they will (eventually) code ...? Wasn't there a > movie about this? 'Supercomputer of dreams' or something? > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf Question is, can you develop code before the platform is obsolete. If it takes a decade, his assumption, to develop code by that time it'll suck more power than its worth to keep in production.
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