[Beowulf] I'm so glad I didn't buy one of these

[Joseph Landman]

On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:31 PM, James Cuff <james_cuff at harvard.edu> wrote:


Let this be a lesson to us all.

Repeat after me:

"Top 500 scores mean nothing!"



But ... But ... Shiny ... Precious ...

Please pardon brevity and typos ... Sent from my iPhone

As a community we have to stop this madness!  100k / day.  Sigh.


Now just get all those writing rfps to stop with the madness.  The number
and it's pursuit are one of the more significant causes of entropy (as in
waste heat generation ) as I have ever seen.  A dubious metric at best with
extremely limited, if any, correlation to end user realizable performance.



J.

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson at aeoncomputing.com>
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...
>
> On 7/2/14, 2:21 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> > On 07/ 3/14 04:17 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >> If they want to spend a bazillion dollars to run hpl faster than anyone
> >> else who am I to stop them.
> >>
> >> If however they want to do real science perhaps they need to architect
> >> something more manageable.
> >>
> >> They should bust that thing up into 3 or 4 clusters.
> >>
> >> On 7/2/14, 2:11 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> >>> China's world-beating supercomputer fails to impress some potential
> >>> clients
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-imp
> >>>
> > replied too fast the above link gets cut
> > So paste "ress-some-potential-clients" at the end or here it is again
> >
> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-impress-some-potential-clients
> >
> >
>
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