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A comment on Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space. Parent comment

Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by mokus on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:32PM (#21447927)
If you need to run a computation that is going to take 100 years with today’s computers, you probably should wait a bit to start it with faster computers.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by saagarjha on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:45PM (#21448034)
Unless you can buy both, in which case you should start now and continue with the newer computer.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by derf_ on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:30AM (#21450410)
But then you've spent more money. You could have just bought more hardware in the future.

For a fixed budget, assuming that Moore's Law still holds (dubious, these days), you should wait until the computation will take 26 months on hardware purchased within that budget [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

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