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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

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  • Sabotage the local grid mining cryptocurrency.

    • We could make our money back if the RSA factoring challenges were still being paid, we would prob have enough computing power and people involved in a group buy to figure out some kind of improved factorization algorithm together

      Just dreaming.........

      • This all sounds great but what about 1000 chrome tabs open at once and NO ad blockers?

        • If we can somehow figure out how to distribute a web browser across all 4,032 nodes of a supercomputer containing 145,152 processors, I'm down, we'll definitely need it if we aren't using ad blockers

          I suggest we figure out process migration for the Plan 9 kernel

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