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UGH! All this infrastructure and all this work into a software platform and it's something that will be obsoleted in a few years by off the shelf GPUs built on

by Scuds 4y ago

UGH! All this infrastructure and all this work into a software platform and it's something that will be obsoleted in a few years by off the shelf GPUs built on an standard development environment backed by industry That's the problem of building something super-cutting-edge on a grand scale - you run the risk of making a super evolved version of an evolutionary dead end. Sure it sounds like a cool idea at the time, the Cell optimized SETI At Home demo around the PS3 launch ripped through work units far more quickly than any Intel system. I wonder what became of the cluster once it was decommissioned? Military surplus PS3s anyone?

HPsquared 4y ago
Many such cases in high performance computing.
avian 4y ago
> I wonder what became of the cluster once it was decommissioned? Military surplus PS3s anyone? If it touched at any time any kind of confidential data or algorithms it was probably shredded into tiny pieces.