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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What were you using it for?

[–] Almrond@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We were running meteorological models mostly, but I did have a colleague that was trying to use it to predict wildlife migratory patterns using topographical mapping. It was batched out on a few projects at any given time while I was there, it was essentially timeshares between a few different research departments.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean to tell me you didn't run Doom on that?!

[–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn't have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that's kind of cheating). Although, as I'm thinking about it... We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal... Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell.