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I would say it's likely that the SV Anton was named after this.
I’ve always assumed it was a reference to Anton LaVey (seemed appropriate for Gilfoyle to name his server after the founder of the church of satan). It would be interesting to know which theory is correct.
“The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms.[5] In comparison, MD codes running on general-purpose parallel computers with hundreds or thousands of processor cores achieve simulation rates of up to a few hundred nanoseconds per day on the same chemical system.” 17,000 ns of simulation per day sounds crazy small…
“The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms.[5] In comparison, MD codes running on general-purpose parallel computers with hundreds or thousands of processor cores achieve simulation rates of up to a few hundred nanoseconds per day on the same chemical system.” 17,000 ns of simulation per day sounds crazy small…
I have a lot of respect for david shaw. He quit managing his hedge fund day to day because he said something along the lines of finance make me stupid or something and went back to doing something useful. If only more of our elites realized this (and cared to do something useful with themselves)
Me as well. It does seem that the whole point of being a billionaire is to do whatever you want. I can't imagine why so many seem to stick to managing their creations, which after a while can't be much fun.
Most of the self made ones too have spent a large chunk of their lives perfecting the wealth generation agent which made them rich. It would be like asking a pro NBA player to also take a shot at being a pro NFL player. It’s not what they trained for; they would need to learn a new skill, a new industry and they will most likely fail anyways.
Only a minority of such billionaires actually end up doing different things; Elon Musk comes to mind. Most are victims of their previous successes.
Its really hard to get a job at DESRES.
I have a lot of respect for david shaw. He quit managing his hedge fund day to day because he said something along the lines of finance make me stupid or something and went back to doing something useful. If only more of our elites realized this (and cared to do something useful with themselves)