I am going to have a 1 day pass to a super computer, what should I do? - Hardware & Software

I got a pass from my uni to use a supercomputer. They said I can play games, but cant mine bitcoins. They have a chart showing FPS for games, and Battlefield 3 is around 67 FPS. what should I do other than game? I feel excited. [U][I][B]STUPID SHIT LIKE PORN AND GOATSE MAY FUCK OFF[/B][/I][/U]

[QUOTE=TomGoodWoman;33586229]I got a pass from my uni to use a supercomputer. They said I can play games, but cant mine bitcoins. They have a chart showing FPS for games, and Battlefield 3 is around 67 FPS. what should I do other than game? I feel excited.[/QUOTE] Folding@Home.

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33586285]Folding@Home.[/QUOTE] oh its some molecure dynamics thing i'll check it

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33586285]Folding@Home.[/QUOTE] Or any other of [URL="http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html"]these[/URL] distributed computing projects.

How does a super computer only get 67 FPS in Battlefield?

[QUOTE=Angry Pineapple;33586326]How does a super computer only get 67 FPS in Battlefield?[/QUOTE] the lab probably used fraps or something, seeing as screenshots were attached. or maybe graphics quality. who knows!

Set up VMPI and lend the processing power to your favorite member of the mapping section.

[QUOTE=Angry Pineapple;33586326]How does a super computer only get 67 FPS in Battlefield?[/QUOTE] They way I understand it, super computers tend to be better at number crunching, rather than games.

Calculate digits of pi, print out results.

It depends what they mean by "Super computer". The term usually refers to a bunch of quick computers networked together to perform specific tasks like simulation, though they're not usually running Windows. What they could have is some beast of a desktop computer, which could have dual high-end CPUs, 32 GB+ of RAM, some high-end GPU (Or a pair of GPUs) and some awesome RAID array all attached to some high-end server motherboard. Such a machine would be great for rendering, compiling or something along those lines. Gaming-wise, it wouldn't be much different from a computer that cost $1000-ish, since I doubt many games are written to take advantage of say, 32 GB of RAM. For the hell of it, I would try GTA IV, since that always seems to eat up my overclocked Q8400. Taking a screenshot of a Speccy window and posting it here would be another thing to do.

Speccy! [editline]5th December 2011[/editline] God dammit, ninja

Can it run minecraft?

[QUOTE=Protocol7;33587257]Calculate digits of pi, print out results.[/QUOTE] Then divide it by zero. do it.

run a rigorous scientific test to see how hot it can get before it blows up [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] present results and a bill to your uni upon completion

Run Windows 95 on it.

Ask it what the answer to life the universe and everything is.

PCSX2 Emulation is always fun.

Use it to calculate the amount of requests for porn this thread would be packed with if you hadn't disallowed it.

Ask it how many times in a day it is physically possible to masturbate with your LEFT hand in one day. [editline]6th December 2011[/editline] inb4 deathrune says something overly fucking stupid...

[QUOTE=Zerokateo;33598523]Ask it how many times in a day it is physically possible to masturbate with your LEFT hand in one day. [editline]6th December 2011[/editline] inb4 deathrune says something overly fucking stupid...[/QUOTE] I've never done it with right hand, just with left hand. And I'm righthanded.

See how many subdivisions you can add to a cube in Blender before it crashes.

If it's running Battlefield 3, it's not a supercomputer. Or the OP has no idea what the hell a supercomputer is.

Try to run GTA IV.

Doesn't sound like a super computer... just some dumb gaymen machine

If it is a super computer is would be kinda boring to just use it for games.

Crack this NTLM1 hash for me: db4a03a8759306177f11f58d7631cd37

How many GFLOPS can it calculate with double precisions?

I don't think a real supercomputer would use x86. This is probably just a high-end computer with a Xeon CPU and Quadro graphics or equivalent.

[QUOTE=benjgvps;33587350]What they could have is some beast of a desktop computer, which could have dual high-end CPUs, 32 GB+ of RAM, some high-end GPU (Or a pair of GPUs) and some awesome RAID array all attached to some high-end server motherboard. Such a machine would be great for rendering, compiling or something along those lines. Gaming-wise, it wouldn't be much different from a computer that cost $1000-ish, since I doubt many games are written to take advantage of say, 32 GB of RAM.[/QUOTE] SR3 Dual Xeon E5-2687W Quad GTX680's 64GB DDR3-1600 That's a super computer. :p

[QUOTE=Brt5470;33612684]SR3 Dual Xeon E5-2687W Quad GTX680's 64GB DDR3-1600 That's a super computer. :p[/QUOTE] Try Quad Opterons 6128 256GB ram ECC Quad 10G[B]B[/B] FC NICs 8 x 146 15k RAID 6 DAS tri 20TB 10K SAN enviroment There we go