That is an intriguing thought. One thing that things like optical fiber have brought is that the users can be separated form the computation (Of course, *I* believe that my supercomputer should be in my office, or at worst, next door, but for the common folk it's different).
While deep ocean is a challenging environment, it's not a whole lot different than deep space, with the advantage that retrieval and repair is actually possible. On 6/21/13 12:52 PM, "Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> wrote: >> The correct location for the Exascale HPC Datacentre of the future is of >> course the Moon. > >I apologize for a relatively sober response, but whenever I see >a documentary on geothermal vents in the ocean, I think about >putting exascale DCs down there ;) > >all that nice cold water in close proximity to gigawatts of free hot >water... >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
