World's fastest supercomputer for astrophysical calcs is finally online

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...line-in-japan/

What a beast!

Dave

[clive milne]

42

[JA]

Originally Posted by clive milne

42

THAT and give it a minute, they'll have it rigged up to The Bureau of Meteorology computers for a little $$B Bitcoin $$B mining...

Thanks for posting Dave. I'll check it out.

Best
JA

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by clive milne

42

Not quite. This computer will design the next computer that gives 42 as its answer.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Originally Posted by clive milne

42

lol, nice one Clive!

[sil (Steve)]

but can it play Quake?

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by sil

but can it play Quake?

I'd say so. It has a shedload of GPUs

https://www.cray.com/sites/default/f...ator-Blade.pdf

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by sil

but can it play Quake?

No more calculations processing after 17:00 during week days as unreal tournament is on...

[AndyG (Andy)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

No more calculations processing after 17:00 during week days as unreal tournament is on...

I can actually see an enterprising nerd partitioning a single core to something like this (unrelated to work), just to say that he/she did it on such a beast...

[traveller (Bo)]

all those on-line gamers, no wonder the NBN is slow

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by sil

but can it play Quake?

Gawd. I had forgotten Quake and Doom and undoubtedly many others. In the halcyon days of my youth, I was an avid player. Now, I wouldn't get past the opening credits before I got zapped.
Peter

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Originally Posted by pmrid

Gawd. I had forgotten Quake and Doom and undoubtedly many others. In the halcyon days of my youth, I was an avid player. Now, I wouldn't get past the opening credits before I got zapped.
Peter

me too. Have very fond memories of those games.

[Wavytone]

Originally Posted by pmrid

Gawd. I had forgotten Quake and Doom

Nah... The real geeks have rigged it to play Battleship, using BGP
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...p_battleships/