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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. Just imagine a beowulf cluster of by Bold+Marauder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft researchers recommending linux!

    Can you say w00t!?!?!?

  2. Did they pass this by Bill or Steve? by tweakt · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...a pair of Microsoft researchers.....

    They advocate building cheap Linux-based Beowulf clusters (PCs in parallel) instead of supercomputers.
    Not for long...