<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:44 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com">jd1008@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"> For many years, this has been</div></div>
a tug of war between<br>
industry on one side, and the department of defense and the NSA on the<br>
other.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You left out the Department of Energy, which is a much bigger player than the DoD.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you think flops is a good measure of the science you can do, you should probably be in a different business.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert. </div><div><br></div></div>