[Gllug] Hiring computer time

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Mon Mar 27 10:07:05 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 09:46 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:

> We'd really like to use Sun's Grid, but it's US-only, apparently after
> they were leaned on by the US govt.  Something about people simulating
> nukes on them - as if a foreign organisation was so poor that it
> couldn't afford to buy a bunch of dual-core Opterons, but yet so rich
> that they could spend $1/hour on Sun's grid.
I'd would make some smart-arsed comment about this, but I'd probably go
to the Tower for it.

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