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On 25/10/12 15:14, bad apple wrote:
I did some occam work on their PC simulator. Once I walked down a corridor and found, next to four lifts and no humans, a large black filing cabinet thingy with 1024 transputers in it - a computing surface I think they called it. Probably one the first ever built.On 25/10/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote:clearly at the end we would need to find some sort of app that would run to prove its using multiple processors.Factoring primes. Hash cracking. Pre-computing rainbow tables. Etc. Let's face it, outside of academia, that's what we want massive parallelism for. Except a Super Micro chassis with a bunch of PCIe v3 GPGPUs is the way forward. Even purely for fun, I'm not sure I see the point of bothering to cluster Pis together. Weak CPU, slow interconnect, glacial performance, buggy distributions... If you want to play with SMP stuff, surely your main PC or even laptop has more than one core these days? PS: Gordon's old job sounds really, really cool. Did you actually get to work with Transputers? So envious. Regards
Just sitting there with no-one around.When I read how Zaphod felt about just having to steal the heart of gold a few years later I knew exactly how he felt but without the built in getaway vehicle. I think I spent a good 10 minutes going through the possibilities before carrying on as normal.
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