Supercomputers

play minecraft

>>56483710
rent it out to people who actually need it

Play minecraft

install gentoo and play minecraft idk frick off

>>56483710
Attempt crysis 3 max settings

play mineycrafta

Install gentoo

>>56483760
You'd probably get a lot of lag and would freeze.

>>56483710
Bruteforce attack this password protected video about some interview of 5th harmony

Create self replicating bots to shitpost on 4chan all day and solve captchas so I don't have to.

>>56483710
Sell it.

#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
    while(1) fork();
}

>>56483710
Try to watch the highest quality porn I can

I don't even know what to do with 32GB of RAM and 16TB storage.

>>56483834
You can do ANYTHING
You just might have a terrible imagination.

Convert my entire 128 kb/s mp3 library to flac.

>>56483710
probably just play some vidya

wish i was kidding

>>56483856
You can't upscale and think quality would suddenly go up, fucking retard.

Hello world in java

Install windows and call Nutella to ask how he justifies a fresh install using 231 TB of ram for "caching"

Mine Bitcoins and bruteforce attack some passwords.

>>56483819
>brace in a line other than the function's declaration
lol frig off

>>56483980
Shit programmer detected

Sudo apt-get update
Sudo apt-get upgrade because I'm a Pleb who can't use the command line or any distro that isn't ubuntu

>>56483909
The only retard here is you.

>>56483710
What processing architecture?

Run Chrome.

>>56483909
>falling for obvious bait

shitpost on /g/

Calculate the circumference of your mom's waist.

>>56485042
>using a super computer to do that
na man, its easy, 1.#INF

Divide by zero

create a smug anime face that's 600 PB large

>>56483710
absolutely fucking nothing because I have no problems that need that kind of horsepower to solve and I'm not going to delude myself into creating some

basically >>56483736

Download and categorize every single meme.

>>56483710
Calculate and store pi

encode tons of anime porn

>>56485179
LONDON
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>>56483710
>What would you do with 693 TB of RAM and 40 PB of storage?

Emulate PS3 games.

>>56485144
>>56483951
Just this

>>56483710
Make the entire Internets my botnet.

>>56484910
>bash: Sudo: command not found

I'd find the end of PI

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>>56483909

Take a screenshot of the spec information and create a thread on /g/ saying
>tfw fell for the 693 TB meme

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>>56485201

>>56483710
Log. Everything.

>>56483710
play TF2 at 53 fps

Divide by zero.

>>56485405
It would be kinda funny to run masscan and attempt to mirror everything. The government could get away with it.

Run Android without lag

I'd probably also use it to archive posts on all of 4, 8 (only the boards that matter), 16, end, and krautchan.

I'd also start logging and profiling every single person on Twitter and Reddit until I'm able to get hundreds of complete profiles of people, and then leak all that personal info on here.

People won't be as trustworthy of social media after that, and it'll only reinforce the stupidity behind "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".

>>56485288

Nice catch

Encode tons of anime BUT with 10-bit HEVC using the placebo preset and a CRF of 16 and seed it 24/7 for you weebs to enjoy so the chinese cartoon business can finally go bankrupt. I would mask all this activity behind 7 VPNs btw.

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>>56483710
Watch my animu@1080p

what the fuck don't evangelions have like 71TB of Ram?
why do super computers carry more ram then evangelions?

>>56483710
3D rendering and particle simulations all day every day.

>>56485984
Why?

make a neural network that can recognize and tag any anime image

>>56483710
What OS does this run to be able to unitize so much RAM? Can some Linux distro utilize that much RAM?

>>56486067
Why not?

>>56486117
Gentoo

>>56484000
autist who codes in notepad detected

>>56483710
Host 4K VR free porn.

>>56486117
probably customize built OS.
I mean, it's a billion dollar machine. i'm pretty sure they have a team that built the OS from the ground up.

>>56483710
Stock market prediction

>>56486279
I wonder just how much power this actually takes.
A couple years back AMD had a presentation somewhere and talked about real time market analysis. I wish I could remember where since some of the data shown was fairly interesting.

Why/are mainframes more powerful than servers?
I've heard this is true at my work from people who work with mainframes, but I don't know how true this is or how it's measured.

run chrome with 20 tabs open

>>56483710
Play some AAA game at 12K 400 fps on an IMAX screen.

Could it find the password on that old .Rar file full of nudes I got ? I sure would appreciate

>>56486410
Nudes of who?

brute force the icloud accounts of stacys for nudes

Mine Bitcoins
Try and crack passwords
Start a VPS service, or anything that requires a server
Sell it

>>56483819
I wonder how long that'd take to crash it...

Program a bisexual waifu that can program and has GPP (Genuine People Personalities). I will make her chronically tsundere, and with a mild case of NEET.

Together, we will figure out how to create physical holographs and program many more waifus to share, and forever live in lust in the basement her hardware is stored in.

I'll be living the Harem King's dream!

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Interesting Reading if U got the time: Cosmic Radiation corrupts the RAM of such big machines unless they plan for it:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/how-to-kill-a-supercomputer-dirty-power-cosmic-rays-and-bad-solder

>>56484964
tesla/xeon

>>56486182

.....Is notepad++ really considered autist tier? That's ridiculous, I admittedly use Sublime but there is literally nothing wrong with notepad.

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Oh, and Mine BitCoins

>>56486722
>>56484964
fuck me, its actually AMD/Nvidia Teslas.

I honestly didnt know that AMD still had a horse in the Super computing race.

>>56486740
He just means regular notepad
Notepad++ is fine, but it's not autistic enough for my tastes.

>>56483710
Benchmarks.

Id call one of those fake India Microsoft certified virus removal scam numbers and have him remotely access the PC.

>>56486785
wouldnt work likely, if you've ever worked with head nodes you'd know why.

>>56483710
prime95

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>>56486667
I am fucking crying after reading that! It was fucking beautiful!

give it to lizard squad

>>56486667
Great article, really worth the read

>>56483710
Sell

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>>56485095
that's a huge mound of trash quite possibly a landfill

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Galaxy simulations.

>>56483734
finally have all chunks loaded

>>56485095
holy shit im keking

render hentai

>>56483909
Serious question. Given a powerful system, can you not make an algorithm could predict the lost bits and closely remake the lossless track?

>>56483710
Play ds3 on MAX settings

>>56485625
>7 VPNs
Good luck.

>>56483710
I'll install Vista and bonzi buddy. From there i'll watch tech tips youtube videos

>>56486117
SUSE Enterprise with custom kernel.

store my dick pic

>>56489928
In general, no, the information is gone. There's no way to magically retrieve it, no matter how much processing power you have. You could probably fix some of the degradation in some audio files since music is usually a pretty specific type of audio and you could theoretically have some kind of machine learning algorithm to match your track to vast existing samples, then upscaling it to (what the machine thinks is) what the original track sounded like. This is probably science fiction at the moment though.

>>56483734
should I install oracle java? Am I installing yet another back door?

Crack tripcodes of annoying tripfags and publish them.

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>>56483710
Make a human interface to win thousands for "charity."

>>56483710
I'll overclock it.

use it to crack all my neighbors wifi handshakes

>>56490512
thx 4 all the internets

>>56483710
Sell it before it becomes worthless next year.

>>56483710
I work in satellite remote sensing, so I'd use it to do all of the science I have currently 'parked' because doing it on our smaller cluster would take too long.

finally get around to completing those gromacs runs

>>56483710
How can you even use that much RAM? I thought 4 was the limit

>>56492088
You can have many things using 4 ram at a time

>>56483710
mine some shitcoins, then see how accurately I can mimic Disney's Hyperion renderfarm.

>>56490989
please anon be more vague

>>56483710
1. install gentoo and emerge EVERY package in portage, all in RAMDISK.
2. reboot
3. $$$profit$$$

Watch YouTube while playing Solitare at 39^8262 FPS.

>>56483710
Open more than 2 tabs in google chrome at the time

feed my favorite shows and movies into a machine learning algorithm that will produce more shows and movies

break facebook's and tinder's servers and feed all conversations into a machine learning algorithm in order to teach it how to pick up girls for me

Play Dwarf Fortress in text mode.

>>56483710
A full CI calculation of meth.
Though I'm not sure if the supercomputer is powerful enough to do that in reasonable time.

>>56486117
Windows ME

>>56486359
You can do that with an i3 and 4GiB of ram

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I would make billions mining bitcoin, convert to cash, rule world, marry all of Keyakizaka46.

Then live in Japan with trillions upon trillions of yen.

>>56483736
Fuck yea, sell VPS space

>>56486772
Idiot

>>56492737
It's probably not even that good for that.

>>56486117
Linux kernel can...

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>>56492858
Guess it depends on cores. but it IS a supercomputer, so there is a chance>>56492858

Sell it to someone who can use it and buy another chinkpad instead tbqh

Make the ultimate seedbox.

>>56483710
create all the possible files in universe (/dev/urandom) and sell them
after that, rent it to make munehh

>>56483710
Write a pathtracer.

>>56483819
Congrats. You just slowed down or crashed one node out of a few thousand.

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>>56483710
Blow this image up to at least 10 tera then find a 3D printer to make it. I would then put the giant Ainsley head in my front yard to keep away trick or treaters

Play two games of Solitaire at once.

>>56483710
Wait, am I paying the electric bill if I turn this thing on?

>>56492665
In theory, could we create a 3D printer that works at a molecular level to print meth?

Download more ram

>>56492737
>billions in bitcoin
>covert to cash

Your really don't know what inflation is hell you might not know how supply and demand work.

>>56483710

Sell it to the chisense

>>56483765

get out mike

use machine learning for superior shitposting

>>56485724

huh

where are you getting this info from

>>56494783

Inflation is not at all what would happen here. Bitcoin has unmodifiable, limited supply.

Brute force obviously. Or make a tiny botnet.

>>56485042
Kek

>>56495057
>Limited
>Suddenly an anon makes a billion overnight using a suoercomputer.
I'm sorry but I don't get it. Guess I must be missing something.

>>56485540
This thread is the best, haha!

>>56495099
not the anon you responded to, but there is a limited supply. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
So he could mine a fuck-ton of them, and it might not cause inflation, but the selling of them...might? I don't know enough about economics, so that part I'm talking out of my ass.

>>56492848
eat my ass famalam

>>56490185
Let's go on a hypothetical ride here for a moment. Say we have a compressed file, and we let the supercomputer reconstruct every possible file that could be the original uncompressed file. Now obviously this would result in a fuckton of files, but one of them would be the original. Now if we crunched all these new files through the compression algorithm, only one of them would result in the same compressed file, right?

The process could be tuned more by studying the properties of the compression algorithm and the compressed file, to reduce the amount of wrong possibilities. Now, I know that the raw power and storage required for such a process would be immense. Ofc this won't be possible if such a bijection doesn't exist.

>>56495152
>The Bitcoin generation algorithm defines, in advance, how currency will be created and at what rate. Any currency that is generated by a malicious user that does not follow the rules will be rejected by the network and thus is worthless.

So you can't make them that fast.
Hence
>>56492737
Fails as he would have to bypass the system to create billions.

You learn new things everyday.

>>56483710
Powerful shitposting

Upgrade it with an RX480

>>56495099

Even if he would mine almost all the new bitcoins (12.5 BTC per 10 minutes) it would be very hard to get anywhere near billions in current value of bitcoins. So the market would not even need to adjust. It's not possible to mine more than 12.5 BTC per 10 minutes.

The problem is that if he could actually gain more than 50% of the hashing power, people would start getting angsty, because then he could filter/block transactions at will.

He could get like ~30% of hashing power without anyone complaining. But still, profit from mining tends towards zero / the cost of mining one bitcoin costs almost exactly 1 bitcoin in electricity.

>>56495152

The market should be sturdy enough to handle fairly large amounts of bitcoin from mining to be sold without affecting the price much.

(Current increase in the monetary base is around 4% inflation per year)

>>56483710
Run Deus Ex Mankind Divided with MSAA On
Still wouldnt get 60 fps tho

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Remove any ports it has because its """""""outdated""""""" all data transfer would be done through a Bluetooth knockoff

cancer researchers or whoever wants computation time will have to buy thousands of dollars worth of IO devices and I would be rich.

>>56495240
In here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply it states that
>The result is that the number of bitcoins in existence is not expected to exceed 21 million
So all
>>56492737
Would do is speed up the process (assuming he is allowed to and is not stuck at 12.5 BTC per 10 minutes btw that equals 1.25 BTC per minute and that's a better way of saying it imo)

>>56495197
>only one of them would result in the same compressed file, right?
No, not really. Pigeonhole principle. If you're throwing out some data, no matter the level of abstraction you have, you can change the data that's thrown away and have multiple inputs that result in the same output. Think of an algorithm that throws away all 'e' characters in a string. "hello" would be compressed to "hllo", but "heello" would also get compressed to "hllo". As long as the output is smaller than the input, you're going to get some overlap.

>>56495099
An extra chromosome probably

>>56495197
Look up hash functions and collisions.

This is basic information theory:

Say you have 10MB of data with the maximum amount of information possible: real random data. You cannot compress this data losslessly, even by a single byte. Not possible.

Lossless compression is basically losing information. In this case, you can just remove 10 bits from the end -> lossy compressed.

You can then create all the possible source files by appending all possible 10 bits (1024 possible source files). But it isn't possible to find out which of those was the correct source file.

>>56495349
Kek thanks anon.

mine cryptocurrencies

>Falling for the 693 TB Ram Meme

>>56495339

>better way of saying it imo

sure, but 12.5BTC per 10 mins is more accurate. Because the code is implemented so it adjusts the difficulty for mining new bitcoins so a new block is created about every 10 minutes. And every block gets 12.5BTC.

This reward is halved every few months, it started at 50 and is now 12.5.

So you can't really speed that process up, no matter how much power you have.

>>56495400
Man I've been out of the tech circle for far too long. Thanks anon for clearing that up.
Cheers

>>56495349
The thing is, it's not possible to create a billion in bitcoin overnight, independent of how much power you use. The difficulty would just adjust.
Inflation does not play into it, at all.

Rent it out for profit.

Fucking duh

>>56495357
>>56495346

Yeah makes sense, but what if you made a compression algorithm that incorporates some kind of checksum information into the compressed file. The checksum would be generated based on what information was compressed, properties of the original file, etc. This checksum information wouldn't be big in size (I think), but would allow you to reconstruct the original file, or at least give you an idea of how the compression went.

E.g. "hello" => "hllo",123 and "heello" => "hllo",223 where ",###" is the checksum information.

>>56486667
Cool, thanks.

>>56495559
Exactly what I meant by looking at hash collisions.

Purifying your solution, you can just compress a file by doing a sha256 hash of it and throwing away the source file. Saving a version of the text without e doesn't help.

It's basically impossible to find a collision for this with current capabilities. So you should be able to get the original file out of it, right? Nope.

Now you can get some monkeys generating random data, and check each time if the resulting file hashes to the same sha256sum.

This will take almost forever, but you will find millions of other files that hash to the same checksum before you find the original file. Why? Because you lost information, and you can only guess what it was.

>>56495559
I would imagine that while you would slim down the chance of a collision by the size of the hash function's address space, but the address space involved in "filling in the gaps" would be much, much larger than a single hash. A SHA-256 checksum will let you lose 256 bits of information before the pigeonhole principle becomes an issue, but you're losing so much data with, say, MP3(on the order of kilo/megabytes, not bits), you'd need multiple checksums to offset the huge data loss. And at that point, you're slowly devolving into packing a 256 bit checksum for every 256 bits of data lost, in which case, you're better off with actually writing the data instead of a checksum. At least, this is what my shitty understanding of information theory tells me. Sorry if my post reads like shit.

>>56483710
I would finally crack the archive of nudes of an ex that i forgot the password to.

>>56495360
My pleasure
>Tips fedora

>>56495669
>>56495679
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I guess I should pick up some books about information theory, seems pretty interesting.

>>56483710
Talkt to CAIMEO

Browse /g/ and watch anime.

>>56495737

Sure. Sorry my explanations kind of sucked, I had a hard time wrapping my head around these things myself, and now I pretty much understand them but I still can't explain them very well.

>>56495792
I know the feel, but your explanation was quite good desu.

>>56483710
Molecular dynamics. Fuck, I'd try to invent a new drug just for the hell of it.

>>56493399
beautiful

>>56491002
>> gromacs
LAMMPS is superior. It was made for machines lile titan.

well obviously im gonna put my dick in it first then ial probably rent it out and let other people use it

>>56492611
>break facebook's and tinder's servers and feed all conversations into a machine learning algorithm in order to teach it how to pick up girls for me

I've read that short story by Asimov before. It doesn't end well for the guy.

I'd run Doom on it.

>>56483710
I'd setup a bunch of video game bots and farm gold for my main, do some research into chillin

>>56483980
literall the way its done in Kerninghans C books

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Actually do it.

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>>56483710
Sell it to China and buy whores and chocolate.

Get a few gbps lines
Download all the porn

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>>56483710
Install Eliza Cassan on it.

>>56485397
lmayo

>>56483980
Pajeet detected

>>56483710
Find out if it blends

>>56483710
I could train waifu2x with millions of images rather than a couple thousand.

Pff fuck supercomputers. Give me a quantum computer

Web scrape a massive porn dataset, train a huge infoGAN to generate a latent space of dirty shit so I can make money off NEETs by generating an arbitrarily large amount of custom porn and bring 3d women closer to obseletion

Porn

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>>56483710
shitpost on 4chad

>>56486857
Not how ddos works

Install kodi and watch Breaking Bad in 480p

Make a really big ramdisk.

>>56483980
>frig off

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2 chicks at the same time

>>56483710
Sell it before it becomes obsolete (if it isn't already).

>>56492803
>vps space
Pleb deteceted

Farm it out to a ton of people to all play vidya with me. Or use it to crack into Area 51. OR just hack anyone I can.

The only good thing that can come from this much power is to retrieve information you otherwise could not get.

>>56493238
gotta make some MPI calls or whatever so it replicates across nodes as well huh?

>>56483847
i'm pretty sure it can't make waifus real
fuck, it can't even give you infinite money
0/10 couldn't do anything
actually
it can't even host more than ~300 people on a single Minecraft Server because, you know, the minecraft server is mostly single-threaded, and there are not alternatives(bukkit spigot etc. are mods of the official server and suffer from the same problem)

>>56483710
Sell them.

Buy a giant boat, a mountain of cocaine, a bunch of muscular jock type male prostitutes, and sail around the world having cocaine-fueled gay orgy on the high seas.

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>>56483710
KILL 4 CHAN

You know what honestly I'd run speccy on it for shits and giggles then install a few operating systems and toy around alittle and run some benchmarks. I imagine there isn't alot of operating systems that can manage that much ram or hard drive space though.

Something of this magnitude you'd just rent it out though.

>>56503072
I'm pretty sure a program like speccy is not engineered to report well on supercomputer-specs

>>56485090
Underrated

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>>56483710
>AMD

>>56483710
What is its current use anyway? Weather prediction or space simulations or something?

>>56483710
Mine bitcoins

>>56483710
sudo pacman -Syu

>>56495357
>You cannot compress this data losslessly, even by a single byte. Not possible.
False. It is only the average case that will be same or larger, not individual cases.

download every picture of a human face on the internet and try to find the most attractive person and then ask if I can poke em in exchange for letting them play flappy bird on it

>>56483765
Mike plz

>>56483710
biggest Cheesy Pasta tor website in the middle of the ocean

>>56486082
http://illustration2vec.net/
open source as well

>>56486261
>this misinformed
it runs linux
if in doubt, it probably runs linux, unless a Real-Time OS is required.

crack all tripcodes

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>>56483710
I wonder if one day we'll see this technology like how we see them giant 5MB hard drive back then. Big unit, small capacity

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bump

>>56504222
No. A storage (the holder, not the capacity) may not decrease (Micro SD) as they may be hard to find/easy to lose but the capacity will increase eventually.

>>56495197
Not really. That's basically the same thing as
>5.45831895319
being "compressed" to
>5.45
And then, attempting to do what you described, it would evaluate to
>5.451
>5.452
>5.453
>5.454
>...
All of which, "compressed" would be 5.45, still.
Best way I could describe it

>>56483710
Try to sort an array with 1 billion elements with bubble sort

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HOWEVER, Servers have a lot of high-performance software available, and generally a lot more software available for obvious reasons. As it stands, the linux kernel is simply the fastest kernel there is, while also supporting a lot of different hardware and software. Furthermore, there is a lot of high-performance software for x86/Linux out there, some of which is dependant on the Kernel for performance or other reasons(Docker, HAProxy, Squid).

To come back to your original question whether Mainframes or Servers are more powerful. A single mainframe is a lot more powerful than a single server...but this comparison is really unfair and misleading as servers are commonly used in sizable clusters which appear simliar to a single system from outside. Inside they're a high-performance high-reliability network of servers.
pic related is what Wikimedia's Infrastructure looked like 6 years ago. Note all the Clusters with loadbalancers(to distribute load evenly, and make it appear like a single entity from outside)
I would say that both per $ and per Watt (Clusters of) Servers are more powerful, altough the latter more due to software.


My personal experience with mainframe people has been pretty bad, they seem to be convinced that their mainframe is the hottest shit. Note that Security is surprisingly bad, as they believe in Security through obscurity and there's a lot of vendor trust(I'm sure IBM did this right). Check out Philip Young for more on the terrible culture surrounding mainframes.
(2/2)

>forgot to post first part for some reason
>>56486350
no. Mainframes are just large, powerful, single systems. The cool thing about mainframes is
>have 10 year old code
>want to run it alongside new code i developed for new hardware
works perfectly, backwards compatibility is massive in that market, and some companys are willing to pay a lot to run code 15+ years old. Also, 0 downtime on a single system, os can be upgraded without reboot etc. (linux only has limited support for this)
The massive downside? It's very expensive, and you're locked into IBM's stuff forever, they have their own OS and everything. Big Clusters aren't that common, usually have (a few) powerful single systems.
Now let's talk Servers
Single Server Systems are comparatively small, cheap, and weak.
Reliability and high performance is gotten from having the software you're running(rather than the OS or the hardware itself as with mainframes) mirror data to other servers, make sure that multiple servers can serve a request etc. Let's you have a cluster of 100 servers that a Cassandra(a database), It's Cassandra's job to ensure that everything works smoothly even as some of the 100 servers break down unexpectedly or say, lose all their data etc.
For mainframes hardware and OS more or less guarantee this, which makes it a lot easier to write software with 100% uptime.
As for performance, in terms of performance/$ servers probably win, in terms of raw hardware performance/Watt i think it's about even, with servers probably ahead simply due to being newer(new mainframe hardware doesn't get released that often), but i think server hardware and mainframe hardware from the same year is about even.
(1/2) for second part see >>56505163

>>56492634
The only true answer.

It runs Cray Linux Environment (CLE, bases on SUSE 11), or as it was formerly known as, UNICOS.

>>56505163
>Note that Security is surprisingly bad
don't really doubt it but elaborate on it anyway
never heard of any real high profile break-ins involving a mainframe as the entry point

>>56505234
>or as it was formerly known as, UNICOS.
that shit far predates linux and has no relation to it though other than the fact that a linux-based system replaced it

>>56505288
"the service elements run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server"

ok then

>>56487534
nigga we already do this shit
#lame
step your game up playa

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>>56505196
>>56505163

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>>56483710
stump the dump

>>56486350
>Why/are mainframes more powerful than servers?
They are more powerfull for transactions. For numbers crunching and related stuff servers with xeons,ppc and so on are better.

>>56483710
linpack and turn off the hvac

take bets on how long until the fire dept arrives

>>56486350
because the marketing department told your manager and your manager says so

>>56483710
install gentoo

>>56486350
That's not the difference between mainframes and servers, there's really no clear cut definition of what a "mainframe" is anymore anyway.

Mainframes are made for compatibility and utmost reliability. If you want raw speed, you buy a supercomputer, if you want to run your shitty abomination COBOL software the same exact way it ran on the S/360 it was developed for 50 years ago for 20 years straight even through critical hardware failures without breaking a sweat, or ridiculous error correction, or hardware crypto acceleration, whatever, you buy a mainframe.

>>56483980
Hello Pajeet

>linpack and turn off the hvac
>take bets on how long until the fire dept arrives

heh

>>56485195
So good.

>>56492689
Kek no

>>56505244
People trust IBM and it's all Security through Obscurity. Any open SSH server(linux server) constantly gets malicious login requests, and various other attacks aren't uncommon either. A lot of tools exist to attack Linux or Windows Systems. You can check wether a system is secure by getting a skilled attacker to try to attack it. For Mainframes...0 tools existed a few years ago before phil young. And there are plenty of critical mainframes connected to the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLxvrklh2tM

remove the headphone jack

>>56510793
>People trust IBM and it's all Security through Obscurity.
IBM's RACF has, to my knowledge, never been cracked. Banks and insurance companies, not known for their lax security, are almost exclusively IBM OS/VS1 or 2 (MVS/zOS etc) derivatives.
SSH? As for your schoolboy Linux systems, well what do you expect?

>>56483710
Does anything actually need that amount of processing power?

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>rent it out to universities, engineering companies, etc
>rake in profits
>hire a bunch of keen AI-focused programmers
>have them program and install reverse image search / image recognition software
>same with some web trawling software
>hook it up to the innerwebs
>program it to scour the internet for porn based on a specific list of fetishes
>have my sickened, yet curious programmer minions create a procedurally generated animation system
>use some of the money to commission a full-body VR suit
>codemonkeys now must make a render engine to interface the VR with the computer through graphical interaction
>fire them all and buy a mail-order bride
>she will feed and clean me while I immerse myself in virtual reality, porn
>24 hours a day
>7 days a week
>pure, unadulterated bliss
>all while making stacks of cash renting out processing power

>>56511244
Yup. Operational services for weather prediction.

Just to educate: weather prediction doesn't just mean 'hurr durr it might get colder tomorrow'. There's a number of third party applications (fishery industries, agriculture, ..) that need a good forecast of surface pressure, wind speeds, tropopause height, precipitation chance, etc. These quantities can be quite reliably predicted in a 2 or 3 day timeframe, but you need a lot of computing power to run the models at various resolutions. And since they are operational, they need to be run all day every day to produce the numbers needed by the community.

>>56511233
please watch the video i linked. ~100k accounts cracked, and all due to RACFs shitty password handling.
Also, by design you can see which usernames exist and when a user is logged on remotely, without any credentials or anything, because the login prompt is bad. Do you really think this is good design?
So yes, RACF has certainly been cracked.

Datamine the social media of every single woman near me, then use some sort of AI to figure out which would like my personality and share interests, then sort hottest to nottest and give me a list.

Nothing, because I can't afford electric bill for that behemoth.

>>56483710
I'd go bankrupt from the cost of powering it and become homeless.

>>56511387
I'm simultaneously disgusted and jealous I didn't think of it first.

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>>56512152
You know, after writing that, I've come to realize that it might even be possible to build a profitable supercomputer on a relatively (compared to corporations) modest budget, maybe set up a terminal system so that anyone can connect to it online after paying rental fees.

Secondhand graphics cards stuffed into a couple hundred computers all clustered together over 10/100 gigabit networking. Doable?

>>56512260
sorta, but at that point you're just doing what amazon etc. has been doing for a while. Also, consumer-grade GPUs suck, you wanna use teslas or whatever AMD has. Besides, 10Gbit networking is so expensive there is no point in bothering with 2nd hand GPUs

>>56483818
>>56486461
yup
>>56485095
>>56485397

lol