Reply #12: That really would be a serious setup to run a single number-crunching routine, wouldn't it? [View All]

[Richard Steele]

That was just kinda a random thought I had a few hours ago...

But the more I think about it, the more totally DOABLE it seems.

With last week's free linux OS, and last year's discarded hardware,
I could stack some old PC's and crunch numbers like a 20-million-dollar
CRAY supercomputer never dreamed of in 1989.

Which is cool for me, because I've been itching to start running F@H,
and my "Plan B" actually involved a 1980's-vintage CRAY mainframe.

This guy I see every once in a while, around 3:00AM at the Waffle House...
he works security at a warehouse, and he's been babysitting a
a static-proof-bubble-wrapped CRAY MAINFRAME the size of a refrigerator
that arrived 2 weeks after he started the job back in '89.
The GOV agency that stored it paid a year's rent up front, and then got defunded.
So no one owns it anymore, and no one even knows it's there....


Temptation...oh, the temptation.