http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=103 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:23:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=103&cpage=1#comment-10479 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:23:20 +0000 http://anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net/scienceblog/?p=103#comment-10479 Yeah, really interesting point Brian. Apparently computing facilities are starting to account for a substantial fraction of our total energy usage. I’d be curious to hear what the boosters for the supercomputer facilities would have to say about the argument that they could do the same thing with a distributed network.

]]> http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=103&cpage=1#comment-10475 Mon, 04 May 2009 08:47:17 +0000 http://anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net/scienceblog/?p=103#comment-10475 I haven’t read the articles you’ve read so I can’t make any constructive comments about them, but I was thinking about the carbon footprint that $1 billion supercomputer facility would be. (Some what of a catch-22.) Well actually, we just need computer scientists to come up with more efficient and better parallel and distributive processing schemes so that we can utilize all those idle computers around the world over the Internet (e.g. BONIC projects). This should eliminate the need for another supercomputer center, yet still give it a try for running those huge complex models.

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