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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server
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Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2004 21:29:29 -0700
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jack Johnson wrote:

> If latency isn't an issue (ha ha), geographically disparate
> organization sharing would be interesting.  Borrow cycles from an
> organization eight timezones away.
>

It's been done, and history forgotten. In the early 90s, IBM Watson ran a
global Condor flock, Tokyo->Zurich. You could watch activity follow the
terminator (day/night) line.

ron