If you had access to the world’s fastest computer, what would you do with it?

@vidak this begs the question: would you emulate the native speed, or emulate it as fast as the computer could run it?

(I’m noodling on supercomputer designs again)

@requiem That's a good question to ponder, but it was the Neuromancer banner that made me hit that follow button!

@incre_ment some of the most beautiful computer art imho.

@requiem Play Doom, obviously.

@acsawdey one game very fast or millions of games at once?

@requiem Run those complex OpenSCAD models that slow down my computer.

@requiem millions, but we need a mod that turns all the monsters into tiny ducks

@rasterweb that’s an interesting one.

@acsawdey I bet that can be arranged.

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I agree 100%. A couple years back I actually made a GIF recreation of that:

@incre_ment ❤️❤️❤️

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I would spend twenty years getting a hands-on education on weather and climate modeling.

@angelastella that is definitely a task that could put that much power to use.

@requiem Maybe enjoying all of the features of Unreal Engine while working on a game, including the part of my fantasy where it never crashes for any reason.

*mutters assorted curses under breath*

@requiem I would Port VM/OS to it, And then I would expose the unique features of your supercomputer via the virtual executive.

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Algorithm cancelling algorithm

@requiem "The same thing we do every night pinky"

Actually... if I had full free unlimited access? I'd use it for all the same things I use my computer for today: browse the web, read mastodon, email, teams calls, writing code... it wouldn't make much difference for those things... modeling RF channels and digital modem systems, simulating HDL, synthesizing FPGA's... those would save me some time.

@requiem @rasterweb lol I know you’re joking but have you run the new manifold library? Is available in the latest rc and you just click a checkbox to turn it in. Significantly faster to the point we won’t need alternative rendering in preview mode Hat tip to @jcorbin who showed it to me.

@requiem fold proteins hands down

@steter you could run many instances in lock-step, and when one crashes it could resume with whatever instruction was run before the crash (ideally side-stepping it).

@vertigo love it

@float13 this is the way

@reconbot @requiem @jcorbin Oh yeah! I run the nightlies and manifold is great! But every now and then I try something really crazy and slow it to a crawl. It’s usually something super-weird and impractical but then so I am!

@rasterweb oooh I’ll have to check this out…

@reconbot @jcorbin

@reconbot classic!

We did this as a group at HT to help with pandemic work and I managed to triple my electric bill 🤣

@requiem 👍

@requiem Turn it into the world's largest public access server, but with the restriction that its only accessible via Emacs.

@zyd oooh spicy!