Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour

Only capital cost

The £1m will be purely for the hardware. Running costs will be continuous and substantial. And, of course, is being run for a profit.

£74.39/hour. It will take 560 days of continuous 100% use to pay off the hardware. I assume they're also using it to heat a swimming pool, thus offsetting some running costs?

>> 134 hours (just over a week)

A week consists of 168 hours. Of course the computer needs a lot of power and cooling, so paying off won't happen all that fast.

Re: 3.69 pence not pounds

Couldn't they have priced it at £0.0314159 per hour?

Re: Cirrus

Not enough energy in it. I am going to wait until it becomes a proper Cumulonimbus. Then we can start putting some jobs on the anvil and talking some proper business. One with a spark.

Re: Edinburgh gets in quick before the Met Office!

Say what you want about the met office, the forecasts for a particular location are good. The TV broadcasts are rubbish as you have to expect with a country where it's possible to drive out of a fog covered town into clear sunny weather and into rain all within a few miles. Just slapping on a generalised cloud or sun for several counties is just that, generalised.

Their climate models on the other hand, seem to predict whatever they get more money more to plough into research. At least this appeared to be the case 5+ years ago, not looked at them for a long time.

EdUni and fire

If you're referring to the AI department on South Bridge, it's a very, very different team at the EPCC.

Also, I have a mate in there who knows full well the value of backups, so he'll be all over that to the point of making himself a real headache for those who aren't!

Is it the same person that says, "can it run Crysis", after every supercomputer article?

It may have been funny the first time, but not the second certainly not anymore, so stop, it's embarrassing.