[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Phil Stracchino]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> Another point to consider is that when I mentioned I knew someone who had
> an alpha beowoulf cluster, he could not admit it in public or advertise for
> employees with relevant experience. In either case it would have tipped the
> competition off to something happening in that company, and they would guess
> and build a competing product (which was actually a serice). 
> 
> If they guessed right, they would be competing in a field the company invested
> a lot of money to be ahead of the competition, and if they guessed wrong,
> they would be ahead of the company in an area they were not ready to compete in.

I wonder if one could conduct industrial counterintel by posting a
succession of job reqs for dummy positions with descriptions carefully
crafted to lead the observer off in the wrong direction, then just never
fill the fake positions?


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