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Supercomputing: Raw Power vs. Massive Storage

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-playing-field dept.

securitas writes "The NY Times reports that a pair of Microsoft researchers are challenging the federal policy on funding supercomputers. Gordon Bell and Jim Gray argue that the money would be better spent on massive storage instead of ultra-fast computers because they believe today's supercomputing centers will be tomorrow's superdata centers. They advocate building cheap Linux-based Beowulf clusters (PCs in parallel) instead of supercomputers." NYTimes free reg blah blah.

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  1. Possible explination? by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, as EVERY post before this pointed out, MicroSoft is recommending Linux clusters!? Why is that? Well, the only thing I can think of after only 4 cups of coffee, is that they're hoping that this attempt will fail. They can then claim that they tried to help Linux, but it was so sucky that it screwed everything up. That it couldn't compete with the "real" supercomputers after all.

    Just a thought.... anyone have a better explination? There has to be a different motive here.

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