[ale] I want one!

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 11:42:09 EDT 2014


Imagine a Beowulf cluster of.....uh, nevermind......


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unboxing a Cray supercomputer.
>
>
> http://www.itnews.com.au/Gallery/390430,photos-unboxing-the-magnus-supercomputer.aspx/1#pic
>
> OK. I also want the facility and funding to actually have mine running
> crunching numbers for solving world problems, like, how to maximize the
> beer produced from a dwindling barley supply as the changing climate ruins
> the crop. Or how to genetically modify barley to be grown in arid areas for
> beer production. Or how to reduce the water consumed during beer
> production.
>
> Hmm. I see a pattern here.
>
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> James P. Kinney III
>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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