[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

[Sheldon T. Hall]

quoth Lionel Peterson ...

> Supposedly there was a network of Supercomputer Centers 
> available to the
> public, funded by the federal government - there was one in NJ, and
> another in Urbana, Illinois (where a certain fellow decided to write a
> browser with some friends of his), and I think there were 
> three or four more, IIRC...
> 
> The IDEA was that supercomputer time was available to educational
> organizations, government organizations, and other, non-commercial
> entities on a shared basis - not sure how it allplayed out...

Nowadays, it's hard to give away computer time.  Every organization with a
wallsocket seems to have more computer power than they know how to use.
I've tried to give away time on my SGI Challenge to local (Seattle) medical
researchers, with no takers.  I explain it to 'em, they say "Uh-huh," and I
never hear anything more.  I've been reduced to running Distributed Folding
(now concluded) and distributed.net just to keep the house warm.

-Shel