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

  • @[email protected]
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    1615 days ago

    buys it

    just games on it

    region-wide blackouts all the time now

    “they really should fix that”

    • @[email protected]
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      215 days 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.

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      15 days ago

      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…

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          15 days ago

          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

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    214 days ago

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

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    114 days ago

    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.