[ale] I want one!

[Boris Borisov]

"640KB is enough for everything" :)


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:49 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 08/01/2014 11:33 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Unboxing a Cray supercomputer.
> >
> >
> http://www.itnews.com.au/Gallery/390430,photos-unboxing-the-magnus-supercomputer.aspx/1#pic
> >
> > OK. I also want the facility and funding to actually have mine running
> > crunching numbers for solving world problems, like, how to maximize the
> > beer produced from a dwindling barley supply as the changing climate
> ruins
> > the crop. Or how to genetically modify barley to be grown in arid areas
> for
> > beer production. Or how to reduce the water consumed during beer
> > production.
> >
> > Hmm. I see a pattern here.
>
>
>
> Back in college, I wrote some really inefficient CFD code (FORTRAN) and
> blew
> through the classroom account funny-money on the Cybers over a weekend
> before a
> program was due.  The prof saw that I'd done this and got me a login on
> the Cray
> Y-MP ... which solved the exact same problem in about 20 minutes.  As an
> engineer, unfamilar with other computers, I preferred the dual cybers -
> the MNF
> compiler wasn't as picky, so I never used the cray again.
>
> BTW, I attempted to run the same program on MS-Dos - it compiled fine, but
> kept
> running into out-of-memory issues.  Who knew that a compute space of
> 100Kx100Kx100K with 8 values for every point would tax any computer? ;)
>
> The following week, we were taught to use non-Cartesian space.
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