Pretend for a minute some alien device, or virus, etc. wiped away all your preferences for Alphas, linux, etc. and you had to make all your decisions about your super clusters over again. Would you still pick the alpha as your processor, or would you pick an IA32, IA64, Athlon, or PowerPC processor? Why? You would probably still pick linux, because it is such a great operating system, but what other OS's would you at least consider? What would you pick for your interconnect? Would it still be Myrinet, or would it be Gigabit ethernet, or InfiniBand? Are there any technologies on the horizon that us mere mortals haven't heard of yet that would affect your decision? Don't worry, I don't plan on starting a competing company (at least not yet). --WindChild.
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Pretend for a minute some alien device, or virus, etc. wiped away all your preferences for Alphas, linux, etc. and you had to make all your decisions about your super clusters over again. Would you still pick the alpha as your processor, or would you pick an IA32, IA64, Athlon, or PowerPC processor? Why? You would probably still pick linux, because it is such a great operating system, but what other OS's would you at least consider? What would you pick for your interconnect? Would it still be Myrinet, or would it be Gigabit ethernet, or InfiniBand? Are there any technologies on the horizon that us mere mortals haven't heard of yet that would affect your decision? Don't worry, I don't plan on starting a competing company (at least not yet). --WindChild.