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#1 2010-05-31 13:59:41
- toad
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all about supercomputers...
Here some fun stuff from the BBC on supercomputers. Guess which os is king...
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#2 2010-05-31 14:56:03
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Re: all about supercomputers...
Guess which os is king...
That's not news.
Seriously, though, that's pretty cool.
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#3 2010-05-31 15:03:07
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I know, I know - but to see it like this on the beeb for all to see 
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#5 2010-06-01 00:12:55
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Re: all about supercomputers...
Can they run tetris ? 
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#6 2010-06-01 10:11:20
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I do wonder what an Arch linux user would do if they were in charge of a 1.7 petaflops megamachine.
“There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”-- C.A.R. Hoare
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#7 2010-06-01 10:15:59
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Re: all about supercomputers...
flamelab would run tetris, I'd spin the cube so fast until I got dizzy...
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#8 2010-06-01 14:19:08
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I do wonder what an Arch linux user would do if they were in charge of a 1.7 petaflops megamachine.
Install Arch on it. 
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#9 2010-06-01 17:34:03
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I'd run a gazillion-threaded x264 encode and post benchmarks
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#10 2010-06-02 04:51:00
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I'd run a gazillion-threaded x264 encode and post benchmarks
It always comes down to benchmarks 
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#11 2010-06-02 05:25:59
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I would fold on it
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#12 2010-06-02 08:45:04
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I do wonder what an Arch linux user would do if they were in charge of a 1.7 petaflops megamachine.
glxgears, then gloat about my framerate on the forums
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#14 2010-06-02 13:47:31
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Re: all about supercomputers...
Hah! I'd compile stuff with make -j1000000.
Surely -j224163 ?
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#15 2010-06-02 14:35:59
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Re: all about supercomputers...
I do wonder what an Arch linux user would do if they were in charge of a 1.7 petaflops megamachine.
I would run it without X using only the most minimalist applications, to free up system resources for other tasks.
because I wouldn't want my super-computer to be full of bloat
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Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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#16 2010-06-02 18:49:29
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Re: all about supercomputers...
Hah! I'd compile stuff with make -j1000000.
Why Gentoo, when you have the power of makepkg?
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