[Beowulf] For grins...India

[Vincent Diepeveen]

Maybe some decades from now all power per flop wasting supercomputers  
will be located in India.

In the long run, they're the only ones on the planet who can afford  
the energy real cheap,
and supercomputers usually burn a lot more power per gflop than they  
should, power6 up to factor 10.

So even existing government rules (within EU that is) already would  
forbid building supercomputers
as they waste too much power per double precision gflop as compared  
to the objective norm.

Vincent

On Dec 9, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:

>
> Daily  Dec 09 2008 TOP NEWS from www.siliconindia.com:
>
>         8 Indian supercomputers enter global top 500 list
>
>   With India making a mark in every sector of the technology field,  
> the
>   country has shown its importance in the supercomputing race too.  
> Eight
>   of the top 500 supercomputers are of India with Tata Group's Eka,  
> a HP
>   based system leading the race.
>
> Go India!  You rock!
>
> (The crowd goes wild...:-)
>
>     rgb
>
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