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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sabotage the local grid mining cryptocurrency.

[–] [email protected] 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.........

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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