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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: R6000 PCs?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 19:45:10 GMT
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In <220@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman):
> And how are you going to cool the coolant? The problem is that you will
> need really heavy duty air conditioning into the room, or to radiate the
> heat outside the room some other way. ECL equipment can heat up a room FAST!

	Since most (handwave) users of supercomputers access them by network
connections, it doesn't much matter where they are located physically.  Which
is more cost efficient, to build a cooling system for a big ECL monster
located in, say, St. Louis, or to run a T3 link to the Yukon, where getting
rid of heat is not usually a problem?  Just idle curiosity.

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