▲ 293 ▼ Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world 67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (3 children) What were you using it for? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Almrond@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children) We were running meteorological models mostly, but I did have a colleague that was trying to use it to predict wildlife migratory patterns using topographical mapping. It was batched out on a few projects at any given time while I was there, it was essentially timeshares between a few different research departments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Do you mean to tell me you didn't run Doom on that?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn't have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that's kind of cheating). Although, as I'm thinking about it... We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal... Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Almrond@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children) We were running meteorological models mostly, but I did have a colleague that was trying to use it to predict wildlife migratory patterns using topographical mapping. It was batched out on a few projects at any given time while I was there, it was essentially timeshares between a few different research departments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Do you mean to tell me you didn't run Doom on that?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn't have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that's kind of cheating). Although, as I'm thinking about it... We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal... Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Do you mean to tell me you didn't run Doom on that?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn't have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that's kind of cheating). Although, as I'm thinking about it... We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal... Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn't have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that's kind of cheating). Although, as I'm thinking about it... We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal... Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell. permalink fedilink source parent