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I appreciate the author sharing his experience but I must admit that it was less exciting that I expected it to be. He basically used off-the-shelf hardware, ra
by simias 7y ago
I appreciate the author sharing his experience but I must admit that it was less exciting that I expected it to be. He basically used off-the-shelf hardware, ran an off-the-shelf program and then waited for a while. There's no obvious innovation, anybody who cares enough to break that record and has ~$20k lying around can do it.
If anything it got me a lot more curious about this y-cruncher program and all the fun optimizations it must implement.
- Someone 7y agohttp://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/ http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/ (Mostly closed source)
- darkwater 7y agoThe previous record, which was basically just corporate promotion [1], did use the exact same program. For a sysadmin/hardware nerd this post was really interesting, although I would have probably have appreciated even more details (quick example, how many disks failed partially/totally during the process?). [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-31-4-trillion-digits-of-archimedes-constant-on-google-cloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-3...
- blazespin 7y agoI know it isn't probably polite, but would really love to know the bill of materials. I have to say though, I think it's very cool if he came on budget. I'm very interested to see what he can do for STEM research. These cloud vendors are way too expensive compared to what he can do off ebay.
- krzepah 7y agoI understand your disappointment but I'd like to point out this is a really nice achievement on it's portfolio as a sys admin
- prox 7y agoIt also is a great side project; And having tested his system he donated it for STEM research. There’s lots to commend in this project.