buys it
just games on it
region-wide blackouts all the time now
"they really should fix that"
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Something something Crysis.
https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996
current price is $100,000
edit: looks like it sold for $480k
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.
But can it run crysis?
Fuck that, run Doom on it
What is the power bill for running that for one day in, say, San Francisco?
Oh damn, those are the same CPUs I have in my server. Got them off ebay on the cheap.
Sabotage the local grid mining cryptocurrency.
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.........
This all sounds great but what about 1000 chrome tabs open at once and NO ad blockers?
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
Excellent. If this could be done by the end of the weekend, that would be greeeaaat.
It's not a PS3.
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.
You didn't know what you're talking about
Group buy, anyone?