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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.
Exactly where in that article did they endorse beowulf clusters?
I thought they were a pair of powerless sock puppets with Gates and Ballmer's hands firmly entrenched in the lower portion of their dorsal cavity. Bill can wiggle his pinky and puncture their intestines. Look for this to happen. Soon.
NYTimes free reg blah blah.
He's talking gibberish!!
Best analogy ever.
It's a VW microbus with four bald tires and a hippie daisies painted all over the sides.
And driving it is, invariably, a fat smelly unwashed guy with greasy hair and a conspiracy theory about everything.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Sorry. There's no mention of linux, free software, or any software for that matter.
2 guys from MS don't like the fact that money is being spent on Supercomputers when it should be spent on x86 clusters.
Depending on how you interpret the story, you could think that the researchers are promoting money for ANY OS based x86 cluster. If you read it with scrutiny, it kind of sounds like MS wants to put an end to non-MS capable boxen and wants money spent to encourage a market that MS doesn't own yet.
Since this is a technical piece and not a marketing piece, draw your own conclusion.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
If these guys weren't able to speak their minds on technical matters entirely without retribution from Bill and Steve, they wouldn't be at MS at all. They don't have to be.
What *anyone* with any moral compass is doing as a Microsoft employee is simply beyond my comprehension.
I can't imagine what a hell it must be for anyone with any actual knowledge to exist within a corporate culture where MCSEs are lauded.
(Then again, one MCSE once made the mistake of calling himself an engineer in front of me. A 6 month marketing department indoctrination is not even remotely comparable to four years of vector calculus.)
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Bullshit.
To suggest that they are so high and mighty
that they don't need to tow (sic) the party
line is naive.
When you go to work for MS, you get borged. Period.
Why don't the editors use non-reg links? Like, say, Google caches? Is there some (perhaps nefarious) ownership chain between NYT and Slashdot? Copyright issues? Deep linking issues? What gives?
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
Because *BSD is dead?
There are mentally retarded people who have been trying to learn how to talk longer than you have been alive. I would recommend not waiting for someone with an extra chromosome to be the next Ayn Rand.
Time is not necessarily a guarantee of being a good programmer. I've been exposed to code written by "veterans" in the industry that is clearly inferior. Insightful programming isn't entirely a function of time spent programming and capability. Aptitude plays a role.
Care to ever show anyone your über skills there, chief? All the fucking crap is links to MSDN, whitepapers and self-proclaimed elementary/rudimentary things your did to lick Icaza's balls. You are a fraud, a sham, a plastic doll put into a plastic and cardboard box to be sold to a toddler and burned with a Zippo lighter.
What a freekin sham you are. Only a total simpleton would take your complete and total stack of lies and vicarious sham trash for anything more than the pile of shit that it is.