in response to your comment "but I also think they can use this for recruiting purposes to get quality computer hackers to come to work for uncle sam." Who's to say thay didnt? now I got ya thinkin!
If $15M was spent to reconstruct a floppy, we would have a problem. BUT IT WASNT. tools to splice a disk are mildly inexpensive, mostly just a good microscope. $15M is the expense of the whole lab, whose scope is MUCH larger, any OS, any media, any size.
The DCFL is not a supercomputing facility. It is a computer forensics lab that has a supercomputer. that $15 mill. was refering to the facility as a whole, not just the Beowulf. Although impressive, the beowulf is just one small piece of the pie.
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in response to your comment "but I also think they can use this for recruiting purposes to get quality computer hackers to come to work for uncle sam." Who's to say thay didnt? now I got ya thinkin!
If $15M was spent to reconstruct a floppy, we would have a problem. BUT IT WASNT. tools to splice a disk are mildly inexpensive, mostly just a good microscope. $15M is the expense of the whole lab, whose scope is MUCH larger, any OS, any media, any size.
The DCFL is not a supercomputing facility. It is a computer forensics lab that has a supercomputer. that $15 mill. was refering to the facility as a whole, not just the Beowulf. Although impressive, the beowulf is just one small piece of the pie.