On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:35:41AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >I think the only thing "super" about this is the marketing ploy > >getting people to buy them. :) > > I thought the superness derived from the idea that one could put > many together, fairly inexpensively, and get a lot of cores for low > cost: Yes, with the money you would spend on an ox, you can get 1000 ant colonies, with a combined towing capacity of 5 oxen! > If you run a real supercomputer, you will pay a *lot* for power, but > this little bugger can't be using all that much. Power in = useful work + waste </comment level="slightly" mode="sarcastic"> > For my work I have been using real supercomputers and need a few > gigs of RAM per core, but I could probably figure out ways to get > the work done by writing my own C programs to process the data with > much less RAM per core. If I were doing that, I can see how this > little thing might work for me. Let us know what you find, I am genuinely curious! Cheers, florin -- Sent from my last battery. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130725/da967c61/attachment.pgp>