jzman Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 No too far back Hak5 did an episode on allowing computers, over a network, to work out tasks, together. Kinda like a supercomputer. Today i was on nvidia's website and learned about the Tesla personal supercomputer, it runs about 4Tflops at under $10,000, and i thought wouldn't it be cool if someone had 10 - 100 of these on a network, working together, imagine what you could do with this. For under $2.5 million (not including other costs) you could be number one on the Top 500 supercomputer list. That would be really cool. http://www.top500.org/list/2008/11/100 http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Let me pull out my secret stash of 2.5mil so i can get on a website. I guess it would be pretty cool, my Folding At Home team would probably be number 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 But for the normal personal use that would be so unneccary... thats why most super computers are used for cracking and stuff like that look it up on youtube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Here are the buy now links. BOXX >13,000 Colfax $9,246usd Tycrid $8,495usd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Complete waste of my time and money.... haha imagine what you could spend that money on besides a ridiculously powered computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzman Posted November 23, 2008 Author Share Posted November 23, 2008 With a 2 Petaflop computer or $5mil, you could do really fast genitic calculations, then you could find the cure for many diseases, then you could sell your cheap cure and make a very large return, ohh say $1billion. No top current supercomputer is not doing this, this would be a great idea for bill gates. The current top genitic supercomputer is running at 600Gflops. Bill gates could find a way to invest $100 mil for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 well 100mil is 100 bucks to bill gates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 well 100mil is 100 bucks to bill gates your logic escapes me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Im saying that for bill gates to spend $100 million in an investment, is like you spending $100 dollars on something because he has so much money.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzman Posted November 23, 2008 Author Share Posted November 23, 2008 He doesnt really have $40 billion in his pocket, he controls it, through stocks and investments, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 I know that but I'm sure he could get a charity or something together saying its for helping diseases, everyone would say oh it's bill gates and he knows everything so they would do it. that would be a good cause for him to assemble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Just build me a Helmer: http://helmer.sfe.se/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Yeah that was on the Hak5 episode, that thing is so good and I bet no one would realize that it was a computer (unless the fans are noisy?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLuNK Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 It's more of a clustering system. You could easily to large processing on a small scale with a few thousand dollars and a investment of your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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