Post #2098606
2026-03-27 17:50 UTC
It was generally understood that no workstation would ever be idle in the group--someone was always solving differential equations somewhere. Usually for tens to hundreds of hours at a time.
So, when I say you'd sometimes see someone running 20 copies of xv, they were often running it as a dashboard. Spin up your physics code on 20 machines and then spin up 20 copies of xv to monitor progress. It was pretty hacked together, but it worked decently well. 15/n?
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 17:56
In light of this, we got to thinking... "what if we could just make our big supercomputing code directly produce output images?" If we could do that, maybe we could wire up xv on the back-end of it and turn it into a cheap "visualization platform." The only problem with this is that we were working on the Connection Machine. I wasn't aware of a vis/graphics library that we could use for this. And whatever we used, it would have to be extremely lightweight due to memory concerns. 16/n?