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If you need to run a computation that is going to take 100 years with today’s computers, you probably should wait a bit to start it with faster computers.
by mokus 7y ago
If you need to run a computation that is going to take 100 years with today’s computers, you probably should wait a bit to start it with faster computers.
- saagarjha 7y agoUnless you can buy both, in which case you should start now and continue with the newer computer.
- derf_ 7y agoBut then you've spent more money. You could have just bought more hardware in the future. For a fixed budget, assuming that Moore's Law still holds (dubious, these days), you should wait until the computation will take 26 months on hardware purchased within that budget [0]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202