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SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
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    Can it run Doom?

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      No. But it will run NetBSD 😇

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      I’m guessing that it can run multiplayer Doom with ray tracing turned on.

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        It could with software ray tracing, but it doesn’t have any GPUs. The CPU cores aren’t especially fast either, they just have a lot of them.

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        It can run all the dooms…in parallel

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      I upvoted cause obligatory joke but there is a map that has like 100k enemies in it, I would like to try it out.

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