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Maybe this is off topic and a matter of taste, but wouldn't you hesitate to have a massive computer cluster named after you? While you're alive? Either out of modesty, or in the worst case, if something goes terribly wrong with it?

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Modesty is a very personal preference. I imagine a scientist with a Nobel Prize and world renown is comfortable with something like this. And not much can go terribly wrong with a computing cluster. It may have bugs I guess? Or the whole building could catch fire? Not really reasons to weigh too heavily.

For the naming institution, the prospect that the eponymous person would be found to have done something dreadful is probably a bigger worry.

(Nothing remotely against Dr Perlmutter whom I know nothing about. It just seems we live in a scandal-filled age).

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