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Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster?
Gori writes "I'm a researcher at a university. Our group mainly does Agent Based Modeling of interdisciplinary problems (think massive simulations where technology, policy, and economics meet). Recently, we managed to get a bunch of money for a High Performance Cluster to run our stuff on. The code is mostly written in Java. Our IT support people are very capable of setting up a stable cluster that will run Java perfectly. But where's the fun in that? What I'm trying to figure out are other, more far-out and interesting things to do with this machine — think 500+ Opteron cores, 2 GB RAM per core, a gigabit interconnect with some badass switches, a massive storage array, plus a bunch of UltraSPARC boxes. So at times when there's no stuff to crunch, I'd like to boot the thing up with a 'weird' system image and geek around in the name of science. Try fancy ways of building models, dynamically adding all sorts of hardware to it, etc. Have different schedulers compete for resources. Imagine a Matlab vs. Boinc vs. ProActive shootout. Maybe run plan9 on it? Most of us are not CE/CS people, but we are geeky enough. So, what would be the coolest and most far out thing you would do with this kind of hardware ?"
I think that would be an ideal setup to run Vista on. I heard that with SP1 you might only need half of the equipment you currently have.
that it will be fast enough to run Duke Nukem Forever when it gets released.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
a beowulf cluster of these .. .
Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind
Because Gentoo is just hours of fun....
compiling.
:-)
power it off and go get a blow job. You might like it.
You have a high-performance cluster, and you're running Java? I bet the OS in windows, too.
Get it to play a game of Tic-tac-Toe against itself. Give us some WOPR love!
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
Chess
Poker
Fighter Combat
Guerrilla Engagement
Desert Warefare
Air-to-Ground Actions
Theaterwide Tactical Warfare
Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare
Global Thermonuclear War
??
Write a program that creates every possible 255x255px bitmap possible, and then right an algorithm to go through and figure out which ones are rubbish and which ones are actually recognizable pictures.
Logic dictates that one of the resulting pictures would have to be of John Lennon kicking George W Bush in the nuts, find that picture and post it on failblog.
Voila.
There was this one incident when me and this girl turned a cabinet over on it's side and used it as a surface for sex play. That was different. It didn't get weird until she insisted that I tie her wrists with some Cat 5 though.
Anyone else think a 2^16 vs. 2^16 Team Fortress game would be pretty cool?
Corollary to Hanlon's razor: Any significantly advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Play the original Tetris game one the most powerful computer it's ever been played on. That's the first thing I would do.
Do it!
"So, what would be the coolest and most far out thing you would do with this kind of hardware ?"
Get Rails to scale?
Play a digital version of hide and seek. Flip a certain register on only one of the memory chips and have competitions on who can find it the first.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
See what it takes to make the processors burn.
What to do with it? Thats easy. Build a hot chick like they did in Weird Science then GPL the code.
Doooo iiiiiiiit!
>> And save the environment a little bit?
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>That is one of the sanest postings I've come across on slashdot. So why is it marked as a troll?
Hippies are the worst kinds of trolls.
Would be to run a VR simulation of you interacting with female simulacra in social situations while simultaneously running a parallel statistical model of the chances of you getting laid based on your interactions with the simulacra.
Sig this!
While this might sound stupid this would give us a rough estimate of how many watts per virtual world it takes and from that we could figure out how many layers deep in the simulation we actually live assuming the top level one is powered by something less than 1 sol of power.
Best idea yet.
We need to learn to hack reality, and take over the simulation.
Plus hacking reality just sounds awesome.
Right on!
If you're looking for something weird to with on a cluster, try fucking it. At least, leave a dead fish/mouse inside one of the cases.
How about simulating tentacles physics for future 3D hentai games?
Errr... that should have read "something weird to do with a cluster". I guess the cluster fuck was exciting me a little bit too much.
/. is way to mature on this topic.
I'd set to work simulating the perfect pair of breasts on a trampoline.
No, we're the best kind of trolls. Come on, who's better at pissing people off than a smug, whiny hippie like me?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I would have to agree with you sir. Nothing pisses me off more than hippies.
In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
root@supercomputer#./00001 ./0001: cannot execute binary file ./0002: cannot execute binary file ./0003: cannot execute binary file ./0005: cannot execute binary file
bash:
root@supercomputer#./00002
bash:
root@supercomputer#./00003
bash:
root@supercomputer#./00004
OMFG SO YESTERDAY I WAS AT THE MALL, AND TINA, CAME UP AND TOLD ME THAT SHE LOVES TOD'S NEW CAMARO, AND
I'M ALL LIKE, I DON'T CARE WHATEVER, AND SHE'S LIKE,
YOUR JUST JEALOUS, sll,,,,, segmentation fault.
root@supercomputer#./00005
bash:
Obviously they need to upgrade their equipment.
We don't want that kind of sense-making, TFA-reading rabble around here, thank you. We prefr to keep our minds free from such things in order to concentrate on such higher things as bad humour, MS-bashing, fanboism, and pseudo-intellectual ramblings.
Al Gore is that you posting from your CO2 spewing private jet?
Buahahahaha! Make it recursive and STACK OVERFLOW THE WORLD!
<xml><I><am><so><damn>Web 2.0</damn></so></am></I></xml>
You must be new here (I guess this one also qualifies as a classic)
Cartman? Is that you?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
They could try running Crysis?
Except that I'm posting this from my solar-powered Tandy Model 100, connected via serial to my hand-crank operated OKI-900, dialed into Suncoast Freenet...
http://xkcd.com/350/
Hippies aren't REALLY trolls, they just smell like them!
Um. Why are you here?