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Supercomputing: Raw Power vs. Massive Storage
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.
Brings a tear to my eye... life is good.
My calendar says June 2nd. What does yours say?
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Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
Just wait till Bill and Steve hear that their engineers are recommending Linux instead of Windows 2003 Server.
In an earlier story Microsoft researches recommended a Linux cluster. That story has been corrected. The Microsoft researchers recommend a hundreds of un-clustered Windows-XP servers. They claim they were eating Lea-Nuts brand PEANUT clusters at the time of the interview and were misquoted.
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By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system. Many scientists are now adapting their work to these parallel computing systems, known as Beowulfs
Man, I'd like to see a... um... damn.
It sounded too surreal to be real but there it was on Page 2, Paragraph 1. That said, I think this may be a sign of the apocalypse, so run and take cover!
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
New York Times?
MSFT'ers recommending Linux?
I thought they fired that reporter who was making things up
Must be why they bought that license from SCO.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
The problem with the New York Times is that they require more authentication from their readers than from their sources.
Heh, even with the Google hack.
Hell, you could use partner=KETCHUP and it will still let you thorugh.
I always use partner=GOATSE
In this case it's too bad they're not using windows. I'd love to see their massive spying database crashing every day ...
"Error: illegal_collection_of_data.txt file not found. Abort, Retry, Fail??"
We know you do, Anonymous Coward, we know you do.
"...a pair of Microsoft researchers..."
"They advocate building cheap Linux-based Beowulf clusters..."
come on guys...June 2nd, not April 1st.
When all else fails, use the backup...
In Soviet Russia, clusters Beowulf you!