What's YOUR favorite supercomputer?

What's YOUR favorite supercomputer?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    probably the one in hackers

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whichever one i’m working on

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the game was rigged
    when two humans at the top level play they've had time to research their opponent. if garry had the chance to observe deep blues moves ahead of the game he would have slaughtered that computer.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >After his loss, Kasparov said that he sometimes saw unusual creativity in the machine's moves, suggesting that during the second game, human chess players had intervened on behalf of the machine. IBM denied this
    >Kasparov demanded a rematch, but IBM had dismantled Deep Blue after its victory and refused the rematch

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I liked the PlayStation 3 clusters, shame they aren't replaceable now.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      really? i keep seeing reballing videos popping up on my feed and people fixing ps3s. there seems to be a renewed interest in running these in homelabs

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >When Kasparov requested that he be allowed to study other games that Deep Blue had played so as to better understand his opponent, IBM refused, leading Kasparov to study many popular PC chess games to familiarize himself with computer gameplay

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    my mind

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thinking Machines CM-2 (Connection Machine)

    Its front-end is a Symbolics Lisp machine, and those are also very cool.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Very sci fi

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        who is this handsome lad

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what a beast

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what's a make work problem I can use for a cluster of processors?
    I believe there is a way to calculate portions of pi without iterating from the beginning but what else can I do?
    I want to make a super microcontroller.

    I've got a ton of various mcus and components I ordered at the beginning of the year because I was worried about the supply chain

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What are you planning to control? Some sort of smart home system?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I believe there is a way to calculate portions of pi without iterating from the beginning
      There is. Square a random huge number, subtract one, and check if it's a (marsienne) prime.
      Literally what mprime does though, so just run that. Another good project is folding@home, they're trying to cure cancer or whatever. There's also SETI@home, if you just want to throw away electricity.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        SETI@home is over, sadly

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Mersenne primes != Pi

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >mprime
        I wrote a better prime finder, in C.
        #include <stdio.h>
        #include <limits.h>
        int main () {
        unsigned long long int x=0;
        while (x<ULLONG_MAX) {
        int isprime=1;
        for (unsigned long long int i=2;i<(x/2);i++) {
        if (x%i == 0) {
        isprime=0;
        break;
        }
        }
        if (isprime) {
        printf("%dn",x);
        }
        x++;
        }
        return 0;
        }

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My favorite HPC thing is ephemeral clusters based on Kubernetes. Dask and Argo are fun to play with.

    t. does this at work

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the most impressive computer ai in the world lost a game of starcraft to a korean, after the computers advantage of being able to click a million times a second and see the entire map at once was nerfed, the human won. as impressive as computers are don't be so quick to assume humans automatically inferior on a level playing field. starcraft is the new chess btw and google and facebook spent a lot of time and money training that ai.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just a bunch of vidja and games. It’s not really what people use ai or supercomputers for. Consider it a side gig. The big boys (top 500) are focused on solving problems that would be impractical without the help of ML

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    also as impressive as computers are, they were made by humans. so the real winner is the people who made the ai. so even when the computer wins it still proves humans are impressive.

    >oh boo hoo the computer beat us at chess we're so worthless and weak stupid meat creatures
    shut the frick up

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the real fun begins when we start merging computers and humans, if we don't destroy ourselves first

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        that's a pipedream, humans aren't just bottlenecked by input speeds. our brains can't process faster then the input speeds anyways. ever tried speed reading? i can read an entire page of a book at a glance, input bottleneck shattered. but i can't comprehend what i read or even remember it unless i slow down the reading speed to the speed of a fast talking human. communication at infinite speeds doesn't matter when the brain can only process at human speed anyways. woop de doo you got a man with a chip in his head that can read a thousand books a minute, he's not going to comprehend any of what he read so its moot. so with that out of the way there's little point to merging man with machine, it's just a gimmick. might as well just have a man with a smartphone since humans can only think about as fast as their natural physical input/output speed anyways.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          that being said we've already merged with the computer and continue to do so in meaningful ways. with mouse and keyboard and slapping our glass touchscreens with our greasy fingers. thats about as good as it will ever get because the human brain can't move faster then that anyways. so we're already there, we're already doing it, we're training the ais as we speak. there could be ais learning from this conversation we're having right now. no brainchips needed and not much point to brainchips other then for correcting paralysis and other disabilities.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Devilish.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    even if they make a computer that makes another computer that beats humans. it's still a human victory because it will have been the humans that made the computer capable of making a computer that are the real winners.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the gigabyte

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wtf this thing looks dope

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How much would one of these be worth today?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The 3380 family ranged from about $98-146k. In inflation adjusted dollars, that would put the top of the range (10GB) at around half a million dollars.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the one that looks like a sofa. CRAY?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, just a big round couch to put in a waiting area (also there's a computer in the middle).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Cray-1

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tie between the T3E and Cray-2.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      damn I used to work in a lab that looked just like this. that sterile white, the drop floors, just rows of racks of hardware. bleh.

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