[Beowulf] Project Natick

Prentice Bisbal pbisbal at pppl.gov
Fri Jun 8 06:50:55 PDT 2018


On 06/07/2018 05:21 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Friday, 8 June 2018 1:03:06 AM AEST Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>
>> And I'm definitely not an expert on Orkney, but I did work with a guy
>> from Scotland, and I'm pretty sure he had stories about how sparsely
>> populated Orkney was due to the rugged terrain and inhospitable weather,
>> so this test case isn't exactly near a large population center, either.
> I suspect the main driver for having the prototypes in Scotland is the fact
> that it's located at an existing marine testing facility for renewable energy
> development, so plenty of expertise on hand plus lower latency to the UK and
> Europe compared to comparable sites in the US.
>

I knew that. I was just being sarcastic and poking fun at this whole 
stunt. ;)


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