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- anteyekon4myst, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7So Skynet actually started as an academic endavour. Look for Sarah Connor on your campus.
- MtheoryX, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Because a cluster of multicores would be faster than a single multicore computer?
Because the price (TCO) of hardware/resources through this venture may turn out to be much cheaper than the university purchasing the equipment on their own?
Because the university could focus on what it specializes in (science and ideas) and less on network and hardware administration? - Dokument, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6May give very foggy results
- apotropaic, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Obviously its not for people like you stutimandal... you just don't get it if you think a quad core system can replace a 'backbone system'.
- skyshock1, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Hahaha.... You're right. Who needs 16,000 cores when you can have 4.
- stutimandal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3MtheoryX, seems you are replying me ...
I am in Univ, and most of us use computers with programs which give instant results on Pentium 4 HT processors. Only 1-2% of us actually have to worry about 30 min or more of runtime.
And yeah, I must add, that programs like Matlab require immense speed to run over the network. Anyone who tried SSH and tunneling Matlab over it would know what I mean. - soapdev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2More ...
http://www.sproutly.com/2007/10/08/cloud-computing ... - skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Cloud" computing?
- empraptor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Never tried Matlab over SSH in console mode but i can't imagine it takes up too much bandwidth if you're not using GUI mode. Unless your program is outputs too much junk.
- stutimandal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Empraptor:
Matlab is GUI. I can't imagine someone running matlab on command line :) And Matlab runs slow within 11 Mbps wireless LAN. Just imagine what would happen with a server far away.
Anyway, I still think IBM/Google will get the casual home user interested in computation. It will serve the society, i think, if nothing else. - stutimandal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ok I just checked the article. The article summary is improper. IBM and Google are working with universities (only) for massive and parallel computing tasks.
The article says data center for remote programming cluster.
Now it all makes sense. - Cantrellv, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0IBM Inks Innovative Technology Agreement With Pike County Schools
http://www.sourcerelease.com/corp/pwp?r=vmmmmk - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The centers would allow a larger number of students and programmers to have access and processing power for writing software code involving massive amounts of data over the Internet, a practice known as "cloud computing
Good - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0In addition to the university programs, both Google and IBM are going to provide free resources for the public.
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -2/+1who gives a *****? they are 2 big companies, why wouldn't they work together on a project.. this isn't a ***** merger.
- stutimandal, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1With quad-cores around, who needs these backbones? And octa-cores would be here by the end of next year ..
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