[ExI] simulation

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Saturday 15 December 2007, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> But this sets us back to mice and pumpkins, aka a Beowulf cluster
>> worth a couple megabucks, and taking a megabuck/year to run it.
>
> Not if we do it all in-house.


Precisely how will this save you megabucks?  The labor cost for many  
of these clusters asymptotically approaches "negligible".  Hardware  
and power are already commodities for the most part; you can shave a  
few pennies here and there, but most megabuck clusters are already  
built on the cheap.

J. Andrew Rogers