os that rather uses the gpu?
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 00:12:04 UTC 2010
On 07/15/2010 04:39 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com
> <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 07/15/2010 04:21 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:44 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com
> <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>
> > <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > For many years, this has been
> > a tug of war between
> > industry on one side, and the department of defense and the
> NSA on the
> > other.
> >
> >
> > You left out the Department of Energy, which is a much bigger player
> > than the DoD.
> >
> > Meaningful computational power has been available on desktops for
> > quite a while, and, if one desktop wasn't enough, you could always
> > Beowulf it, which isn't much different from what the DoE has
> been doing.
> >
> > If you think flops is a good measure of the science you can do, you
> > should probably be in a different business.
> >
> > Robert.
> >
> On this list, I do not think you should be in the business of
> 1- putting your words in other people's mouths
> 2- telling people what business they should or should not be in.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I've been involved in this debate in a very public way for a long time
> now.
>
> YOU chose to use this list to advocate a position that the DoE has
> been using for years to convince people that ever bigger computers are
> a good way to spend money. If you didn't say it, you certainly
> strongly implied it (more flops is better).
>
> I answered you because you stepped on MY toes.
>
> How long have you been around? The Cray-1 was practically synonymous
> with "supercomputer," and that kind of power has been available to
> desktop users for a long time now.
>
> Robert.
>
"There he goes again"
I did not choose any position. I merely stated a fact and you concocted
from that, that I am taking a position on the issue.
I am an old timer by the average age of this list's subscribers. I was
around when the pdp 8 and pdp 11 were used to teach
assembly language programming.
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