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Title: hmm, what to do with a supercomputer?
Post by: Beaker on February 02, 2008, 02:31:31 AM

a couple of my associates are running a new little project involving a nice little Onyx machine. If anyone can think of something audio-visual or the like that it could be used for then they may be interested in helping out. TO be added later are an Onyx2 and a couple of Origion2000 boxes. Im really only posting because im nerdy enough to think that having some proper Big Iron sat around in your office is quite nifty...

http://img169.imagevenue.com/view.php?image=91458_Photo-0032_122_1005lo.jpg

I dont know what I would use something like that for, but im suffering severe processor envy!

Title: hmm, what to do with a supercomputer?
Post by: knighty on February 02, 2008, 10:54:43 AM

(pic in link is dead!)

Title: hmm, what to do with a supercomputer?
Post by: bear on February 02, 2008, 11:24:56 AM

(http://img169.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-12482/loc1005/91458_Photo-0032_122_1005lo.jpg)

Title: hmm, what to do with a supercomputer?
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on February 02, 2008, 12:59:00 PM

Lol if only I could Id take a picture where I work :) You know something is good when you walk into the server hall and see CRAY in that ever so cool font on the front of a cluster of computers

Big Iron is always impressive :) Quite what you can do with it I have no idea. Could do some rendering or something :D lol use it for folding@home :D

Title: Re:hmm, what to do with a supercomputer?
Post by: SteveF on February 02, 2008, 14:19:43 PM

I could use the spare cycles for churning through a ton of movies and turning them from 24fps films to 60fps films. But I dont think Id be allowed to run the algorithms outside of our grid. Works out at about 14400 hours on a single 3GHz core each week which slows down my research no end even with hundreds of cores working on it :(

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