Post #2098599
2026-03-27 15:25 UTC
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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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 15:29
But, the resulting pictures look kind of awesome. Bad ass really. Realistic lighting. Anti-aliasing. All of the molecules look spiffy--like rendered billiard balls. Stuff, you'd definitely want in a PowerPoint presentation to be shown on the big screen at a Supercomputing conference. Why, what are we talking about again? Oh yeah, xv. Let's get back to xv... 11/n?