[rescue] No more Cray MTAs?

[Dave McGuire]

On March 12, David Rouse wrote:
> According to the Register:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24382.html
> 
> They will do Dell clusters instead of MTAs. And the Register says the 
> MTA architecture is much better than any collection of computers, 
> quoting Terra:
> 
> "Regardless of the name, they all suffer the same basic problem: a truly 
> horrible programming model."
> 
> Hmm, so maybe a *lot* of Crays hitting ebay as the suits dump the 
> dead-end machines for the next new thing.

  Maybe, maybe not.  In places where "real" Crays are found, the
people using the machines for their work have at least *some* say in
what's going on...suits are bad wherever they are, but when you spend
a few million bucks on a single computer, they tend to pay a little
more attention to it.  Whether or not this will be enough to keep the
real machines in service, however, remains to be seen.  It has so far,
for the most part.

  Of course, it must also be strong enough to buck the standard
inexplicable suit "pull" to replace everything including the coffee
maker with a PeeCee running Windows.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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