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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!"
Chess
Poker
Fighter Combat
Guerrilla Engagement
Desert Warefare
Air-to-Ground Actions
Theaterwide Tactical Warfare
Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare
Global Thermonuclear War
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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.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
>> 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.
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.
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.
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?
Hippies aren't REALLY trolls, they just smell like them!