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Big BLU Super Computer



On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:38:48AM -0400, Billy SG McCarthy wrote:
> 
> I'd say that's the first thing that needs to be done, find a use/need for
> it.  Then work out the logistics of building and maintaining it.

The badass nature of a cluster and the experience of building it 
should be a sufficiently compelling reason to run it.

Other reasons:

Advance global medical knowledge - 
	participate in "folding at home" ( real name?)

Gain rep for blug - participate in:	
			SETI
			various crypto breaking contests

Be Charitable:
	Donate processing time to non-profit research
	(perhaps problematic)


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Idealism:  "Realism applied over a longer time period"

Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.




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