<html><head></head><body><div>Sometimes I just have to slobber over the next-gen HPC parts list:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SHFI-i1C.cfm">http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SHFI-i1C.cfm</a></div><div><br></div><div>coupled with the switch</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/Networking/SSH-C48Q.cfm">http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/Networking/SSH-C48Q.cfm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Yes. Those are 100Gbps network devices. Fantasies of a rack full of high-core count CPUs with honkin' GPU monsters and massive coprocessor cards and multiple TB of RAM in each node.</div><div><br></div><div>Why limit my fantasy to a single rack?! It's my daydream! I can have a whole ROOMFUL and still don't have to pay the power bill.</div><div><br></div><div>BWAHAHAHA!!!</div><div><br></div><div><thunk></div><div><br></div><div>{reality creeps back in around the edges}</div><div><br></div><div>must fix the vm host server that died again. can't actually buy these toys. distractiondistractiondistraction</div><div><br></div><div><sigh></div><div><span><pre>--
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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