[rescue] More free hardware in Pittsburgh

[microcode at zoho.com]

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.