[rescue] More free hardware in Pittsburgh

[microcode at zoho.com]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:30:51AM -0000, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, microcode wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:15:29AM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> >>On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 06:54:32 +0000, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>Dave asked me not to mention anything but it is now public knowledge. It
> >>>turns out he was the high bidder back in April on LANL's Road Runner:
> >>>https://www.lanl.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2013/March/03.29-end-of-roadrunner.php
> >>
> >>Does he sell compute time to third parties?
> >
> >He wanted to of course, to defray some of the costs of the plutonium and A/C
> >etc. but the capacity planners' report stated pretty clearly he has no spare
> >cycles based on current workload projections. So, unfortunately, no.
> >_______________________________________________
> >rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> >
> 
> Is it a problem I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not? ;)

If your lights dim and you feel a mild aftershock when Dave fires it up
you'll know it wasn't ;)