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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: CFCs, What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- References: <1992Nov16.023102.21232@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.171314.2178@craycos.com> <schumach.721938542@convex.convex.com>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:28:10 GMT
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- >>>>>what are they getting in addition to computational power?
-
- >In <1992Nov16.171314.2178@craycos.com> sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) writes:
- >>... several hundred gallons of Fluorinert(r) ;-).
-
- In article <schumach.721938542@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com
- (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
- >Not necessarily. Some of us are ozone-friendly. :->
-
- This is a question we apparently get all the time since the O^3 work is
- done at another part of Ames. We, of course, have to be answerable to this
- and the CRI line (since we have to ask them) is that it's in a different
- family of CFCs.
-
- Now, I could go over to Pollock's office in atmospheric chemistry, or
- some one from NCAR could pipe in, BUT let there be no mistake, the
- amount of Fluorinert running in Crays is probably trivial to the amount used
- in baths and washes (I've seen the one in Richardson) used in making computers
- and other electronics (as I view another hazying Silicon Valley day):
- Intel, NSC, AMD, MIPS/SGI, etc.
-
- So this should not be a case of "out of sight, out of mind." 8^)
-
- Ironic, eh?
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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