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What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M?

Posted by timothy on from the those-investors-should-be-pissed dept.

coondoggie writes "The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ultimately, the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated. Magellan will explore whether cloud computing can help meet the overwhelming demand for scientific computing. Although computation is an increasingly important tool for scientific discovery, and DOE operates some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, not all research applications require such massive computing power. The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources, the DEO stated."

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  1. Re:Wrong question. by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Frankly I`m just suprised that the US government has a whole department dedicated to wasting energy.

    Sorry to break it to you, but most government departments are dedicated to wasting energy.

    -jcr

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  2. $32 million? by condour75 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With that much money they could get a quarter of an F-22 fighter jet! How dare they spend it on research?

  3. Re:In socialist America by Itninja · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will gladly give you $0.21 if I (and the many generations after me) get something useful in return. Like the Internet infrastructure we are all using right now.

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  4. Re:In socialist America by condour75 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and remember, kids: this thread was brought to you by a 40-year-old DARPA project.

  5. Re:In socialist America by martas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In socialist America, children go to school and learn something useful, everyone has healthcare, the entire planet doesn't see the US as a meddling bully that resorts to violence to solve all of its problems, and technology is seen as an opportunity rather than a nuisance. Oh, the horror!

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