No, just computer architectural ignorance.
I think building a traditional "super computer" is likely an error.
Maybe we could get Roger Fry and the Connection Machine gang to give
it another shot. We should be thinking thousands of processors with
at least mesh memory, if not hyper-cube.
But even better would be gigabit networking or more to more than a
thousand nodes within the state, each running "interesting
architectures" including massive GPU farms.
Most of the current thinking is your basic application server on
steroids. Google will eventually beat all these efforts because they
are thinking plumbing/networking with scalable data stores (NoSql).
Just one smart node is not the way to go. State wide, easy access
networking with massive, low latency storage is the first step. The
institutions will add the surprises.
-- Owen
On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
political bullshit?
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1381807.shtml?cat=500
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