On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/232259/supercomputer-repossessed-by-state-may-be-sold-in-pieces > What was the fuss at the time, I forget the specifics. It seemed to me that really fast internet, which NM does not like, would have been required for its use. Wasn't that the grand plan? .. institutions would use it remotely? I'd far rather have HUGE internet bandwidth so that I could quickly configure Amazon instances for large computations that I fed massive data to and from via a fast network. BTW: did TranSim and its related projects ever try Amazon? Likely the routing between instances wouldn't be sufficient, but not that familiar with the architecture. Over simplification, I realize, but nowadays it seems like supercomputing without a network is like a BMW without wheels. -- Owen
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