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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
Challenge someone else with a supercomputer to a chess tournament.

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

MJP posted:

I'd find another supercomputer and get them talking.

Four words -
Colussus: the Forbin Project

You're forgetting the part where the supercomputers had already been given direct control over nuclear weapons.



Subjunctive posted:

When I had access to a few Top10(tm) clusters for tests in ~2004, there was a distributed povray-like thing that a colleague used to render some scene of a space battle with all the lighting tricks at a huge-at-the-time resolution. Took about 30 hours on about 1000 top-of-the-2004-line Linux machines. I might still have a copy somewhere! I bet it’s like 4K or something else that my phone can reproduce in near-real-time.

Ehhh, not necessarily. A modern PC still wouldn't be able to render Toy Story in realtime.

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