On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com">jd1008@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br></div>Dude, I am not a teacher.<br>
I am a hacker of sorts.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My apologies for being misled by your post:</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8601px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"This is the kind of technology that is needed to solve huge mathematical<br>
problems.<br>Most smaller universities and colleges do not have massively parallel<br>supercomputers that are<br>vector processors. This could make it easy for such colleges and small<br>university research<br></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8601px; border-collapse: collapse; ">projects to have some decent computational power."</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8601px; border-collapse: collapse; "></span>If you'd said, "I'm a hacker of sorts, and I'm really excited at the prospect of playing with one of these," the conversation never would have taken place. </div>
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But you opine that problems that others are excited to solve with the<br>
SLI gang of gpu's are "embarrassingly parallel", guess you will just<br>
have to sweat it and wait for your dream machine to be built, perhaps in<br>
your next life time. Meanwhile, all you will be able to do is complain<br>
about other people's excitement with the technology at hand.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not waiting for anything. I get heard.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert.</div><div><br></div></div>