Christine Lemmer-Webbercomputers are a blessing
computer corporations are a mistake
computer datacenters are unforgiveable
computer corporations are a mistake
computer datacenters are unforgiveable
this is a shitpost of sorts but in all earnestness, datacenters *were* a mistake
Janne Moren@cwebber
I know it's a shitpost, and I get what you mean.
But sometimes, in HPC, you can't do things on just a single computer (or a loosely networked set of machines).
Also, for the same work, running it on separate desktops would take more energy than running it on a cluster in a datacenter.