[ale] I need funding and an excuse

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. If it needs a 640 cpu preprocessor, it'll take a a honker to run on!!

Oh yeah, multi-Gbit satellite downlink sound like an excellent "roof
decoration"! I've added that to my list of "economic stimulus
upgrades".

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM, JK<jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> I read a couple days ago that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which
> will fly on the ISS and spearhead the search for antimatter galaxies
> and dark matter, has an on-board 640-CPU machine for pre-processing
> the massive amounts of data it gathers.  You could maybe convince
> NASA to offload that task to your basement?  You'll probly need a
> GB/sec link to the interplanetary Internet, which I'm sure they'll
> happily provide :-)
>
>
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> don' care. wantonewantonewantonewantone!!
>>
>> and funding for the power and cooling bill.....
>>
>> and a cool project to run on it 24x7...
>>
>> and...
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:52 AM, scott mcbrien<smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah except it's made by Rackable, the crappiest hardware company EVAR!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 'cause I want to play with one of these:
>>>> http://www.cray.com/xt/istanbul/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> highperformancelinuxcomputingdrooldroolmassivelyparalleldroolbigfreakingonzonumbercrunchingdrooldrooldrool
>>>>
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