Post #2098597
2026-03-27 15:17 UTC
And if you brought your colleagues along for an SGI visit, half of the conversation was like "WHAT?!?!"
Because, as mentioned, you're all sitting in the computer room next to a giant supercomputer that needs cooling.
But, it all looked pretty sweet. I will grant you that. The kind of setup that would make a funding manager take one look and say "it'd be even sweeter looking if we had a bigger SGI than Livermore." 9/n?
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 15:25
Anyways, while all of this is going on, a more diminutive, yet still kind of cool looking SGI shows up in the corner of the post-doc/grad student bullpen. A mere $250K machine. It too can play Driving Simulator. It sort of works but a) you now had to FTP gigabytes of data from the computer center to local storage over 10Mbit ethernet. b) There's never enough local storage. c) Visualization takes forever. d) Nobody else can use it while it churns. It kind of sucks. 10/n?
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io 2026-03-27 15:19
@dabeaz I sometimes wonder how many Connection Machines got sold on looks alone. Programming them was non-trivial, especially before the CM5 came out.