{"by":"nkurz","id":718399,"kids":[718425],"parent":718147,"text":"Great writeup, thanks! I'm confused by your conclusion, though: \"I wish I would have identified Rackspace initially as the platform of choice.\"<p>From the results of the contest, I would have concluded that the platform of choice was CUDA. Do you think otherwise? Is there a reason you'd choose to use a flotilla of Rackspace servers for a problem like this rather than a graphics card? If you are going to be programming in C anyway, it seems like a much simpler approach.","time":1248291901,"type":"comment"}