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He's begging for regulatory capture. "I can destroy the world but I won't. My competitor's will, so regulate them." A shrewd plan considering he's not offering something beyond what another company with a large nvidia cluster could offer.

Nah, the myopic focus on Kissinger means ignoring the other culprits in the room, meaning you don't care about the Cambodians beyond using them in political games. The PRC/Vietnamese would have still sponsored the Khmer Rouge into slaughtering them. But then they would be just another in a long list that you could ignore. That's the reason for the whatabotism, the cruelty of ignoring the rest of their plight. As long as it doesn't stain your hands, you'll ignore the slaughter. And from your second point, you admit you don't care about what war crimes Kissinger did abroad only that it hurt soft power. Sounds like a defense of Kissenger to me.

And do you hold the same level of contempt for the PRC and Vietnamese for their greater part in the affair?

Honestly? Surely you jest! If anything, the current interpretation of Vietnam by the american media is already what you want. They depict NV as a saint fighting against imperialism while the US as stupid. NV invaded South Vietnam and Laos, helped the Khmer Rouge, took help and advisors from the soviets and PRC (not totally about imperialism, eh?), flagrantly violated the rules of war, cleansed and supressed both religious and ethnic minorities, brainwashed their own into using suicide tactics, violated the core of the paris peace accords, re-educated South Vietnam, enforced single party rule, and so on. And no South Vietnam isn't a saint either, but North Vietnam has a habit of surpassing any of their transgressions by a good margin. If it wasn't so political important to many ideologies, NV would be seen in a far less sympathetic light. American interpretations of Vietnam are arrogantly about themselves.

So what you're saying is that you'd have been a Auschwitz guard if they allowed you to work from home? Me thinks the nuke guys dodged a bullet with you.

You know this is an antiwar puff article by the guardian being posted to HN for propaganda purposes right?

If it's simple alignment like blast, they don't need the interconnect. But supercomputers provide all the other necessary needs: fast processors, connected nodes, accelerators, massive I/O bandwidth. Why build a cluster without a fast interconnect to complement those features? That's just turning down research customers. And 15% on top of the other hardware is nothing. The main costs is all the power, custom software, and support staff. And not all bioinformatics is ops on strings with minimal message passing.

For these guys, it's likely their best and only option. They probably weren't given the money to build a cluster optimized for their needs or to maintain a cloud instance. Why? Its oakridge, their main priority is HPC physics. It's hard to argue when you have access to such a HPC center. And HPC sites need all the customers they can get, lest their clusters get shoved into the cloud. It's a real fear. They'd end up with hidden costs, data lockin, and poor interconnects. To help pay for those peak massive simulations, traditional HPC need to fill up that last 10-15% and bioinformatics needs most of what they offer. Perhaps all that hard won knowledge will rub off on the burgeoning field too. :)

A vision of bio-oriented HPC is IU's clusters. Though they have a shiny new cray shasta with ampere and slingshot, several of their other clusters are 10 gigs with high mem nodes. All connected to the same storage too. The hospital is the main customer and dictates their designs.

Ditto on the paper though. It's what I disliked about Bioinformatics. All the glory to the researchers designing the experiments and they can't even bother to mention what software they used.