If you had a supercomputer at your house, what would you use it for?

We should get an official HPC:Factor Minecraft server going. Been wanting to play online since forever.

Good idea Except the cost for the heat will be high if the point was to only warm up your house

Yes, SETI and BOINC in general will surely get a boost.

Edited by stingraze 2011-11-05 1:37 AM

I never heard of Minecraft until this post and just took a look at it. Looks like a fun little game. Can you play it offline?

Yeah, there is an offline mode. I've been playing it for more than a year. Even though the game looks very rudimentary, it eats resources because of how massive everything is. Worlds are infinite. I would suggest 512MB VRAM, 2GB RAM and a 2.2GHz CPU for running it smoothly. When I fix my server (just level corruption) I'll see if I can make it available to you guys.

Here's a list of hardware configurations tested for Minecraft high settings. The lower in the list you go, the newer the Minecraft version: Hardware Performance

Same here MobilePro Master. And the worst part is I can't put it down.

Would love to see you get a server up and running!

I fixed my server, and it's running again, but I think we need to start a new thread because right now we're still hijacking poor stingraze's thread. I'll make a new thread if my parents let me let people on who aren't from school.

Let me know if you get the game, Rich. When I mentioned those specs, that is for high settings. I play with only 128MB VRAM on low settings with a mod that increases my FPS by optimization and it is quite smooth.

It's interesting to see how some people want to use a supercomputer for games. PS3 was considered to be a supercomputer game console when it came out. And in fact, I was so fascinated by it that I installed Fedora 13 when I could officially do it.

I guess supercomputing and games are very related.

Obviously the only true use of a supercomputer is a Doom II tournament

The old SC at work has 8192 GB RAM and 1992 CPU's.

There is a newer 42.9 TeraFlops super computer too. It has 2840 Dual core CPU's (5680 cores), 192 TB disk space.

Anyone for Doom II?

p.s.

There are 218 Gigaflops in a PS3

Is that the year or the quantity?

Quantity. 1992 Xeon 51xx 3.06 GHz's

1992 Xeon 51xx 3.06 GHz's! My dream place to be in! I wish I could visit such a place some day.

Edited by stingraze 2011-11-07 12:25 PM

Let me know next time you're in London

Though I now have some concerns over your mental state if you dream of being exposed to all that noise and all that cold air!

Thanks. Ohhh... I've never been in a Super Computer room, didn't know it was THAT noisy... lol