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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

buys it

just games on it

region-wide blackouts all the time now

"they really should fix that"

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Something something Crysis.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996

current price is $100,000

edit: looks like it sold for $480k

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

If all of Lenny’s users pool together it should cost just, like, $1000 each. We can each rotate our use to 3.7 days a year.

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fuck that, run Doom on it

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

What is the power bill for running that for one day in, say, San Francisco?

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sabotage the local grid mining cryptocurrency.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

We could make our money back if the RSA factoring challenges were still being paid, we would prob have enough computing power and people involved in a group buy to figure out some kind of improved factorization algorithm together

Just dreaming.........

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This all sounds great but what about 1000 chrome tabs open at once and NO ad blockers?

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If we can somehow figure out how to distribute a web browser across all 4,032 nodes of a supercomputer containing 145,152 processors, I'm down, we'll definitely need it if we aren't using ad blockers

I suggest we figure out process migration for the Plan 9 kernel

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Excellent. If this could be done by the end of the weekend, that would be greeeaaat.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Oh damn, those are the same CPUs I have in my server. Got them off ebay on the cheap.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's not a PS3.

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What’s amazing is that 99% of people are reading this article on a supercomputer. Likely one that fits in their pocket. If the technology trend continues like it has for the past 70 years or so, we’ll probably have Cheyenne-equivalent computers on our desktops, if not our pockets, in 10-20 years.

If you can afford to be patient, you can get Cheyenne a lot cheaper and a lot smaller.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You didn't know what you're talking about

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

sicko-wistful

Group buy, anyone?