As long as we're dreaming, let's bring back Time Warp. One that works, this time.
--Doug On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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