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even then, I'd rent a day's worth of time for a prompt with a petaflop processor :)

• sliverstorm 14y ago
  It's a distributed batch-job type system, not a single computer with a petaflop core. I don't think it is technically accurate to call it a cluster, but it isn't one machine either.
  • nwh 14y ago
    You'd still be able to mine bitcoins on it.
• ams6110 14y ago
  Unless you've got a big HPC job to run, it wouldn't be very exciting. You log in to a "login node" which is just an ordinary linux server and you get a bash prompt. Nothing very remarkable. To actually do anything you would create a script and submit your job to the workload manager, then come back later for your results.
  • rbanffy 14y ago
    If there were a GUI for that, it could show decks of FORTRAN cards and a shelf with printouts... ;-)