Posted on 08/18/2022 8:03:49 PM PDT by ganeemead
A decent quality computer that you might have bought six or 10 years ago lacks very little in being a supercomputer, and could be made into a supercomputer fairly easily. As a general rule, that computer could also be bought for very little money on eBay now. The two things that computer needs: .....
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When I had to upgrade a boat load of PCs at an old employer with little budget, I purchased used HP Vectras. They were great PCs to own and operate.
How is that ’super’ ?
Bkmk
It's very difficult to get rid of MS flotsam.
And I'm a professional.
The fool who wrote this doesn’t even know there actually is such a thing as a supercomputer. A blockchain blog...
A very old saying: “With Windows (1.0) you will believe your new 386 PC will fly like a 286 running DOS.”
Bookmark.
Figured this was about 2nd-hand smartphones
What I need is a vector program to replace corel draw which I have been using since V3.
I tried Inkscape and it is way too cumbersome for my purposes. Also, I need to be able to import and export EPS, AI, vector PDF, and in a perfect world import my X5 cdr files. Though I can do a workaround on that.
I’ve a buddy who does something like this. He has a Beowulf cluster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster
Just because you add an SSD into your years old computer does not make it into a Super computer.
It improves the rea and write performance of the PC slightly,but then your still stuck with slow memory a slow cpu and a slow graphics card.
I’ve recently purchased (ebay) an HP Z820, 2 CPU/16 core, 3.5 GH, 32GB ram easily upgradable to 64GB for $100 along with a 3gb gaming graphics card all for around $310 and all in very good condition. A $45 half-terabyte SSD and a free copy of Ubuntu-Mate LINUX, and that is a super-computer by any standard.
I’ve worked on a project that used a job-jar approach to parallel computing... I suspect that on something like that Z820 with 16 cores, you could achieve similar effects just by starting up ten or twelve copies of the application that was fishing next pieces of some large computing task out of the job jar...
“I’ve recently purchased (ebay) an HP Z820, 2 CPU/16 core, 3.5 GH, 32GB ram easily upgradable to 64GB for $100 along with a 3gb gaming graphics card all for around $310 and all in very good condition. A $45 half-terabyte SSD and a free copy of Ubuntu-Mate LINUX, and that is a super-computer by any standard.”
All that matters is that the Computer you purchased performs up to your expectations.If it operates with your applications then that’s great.
The problem comes with graphic intensive programs thats when you find out how good your PC is. I know because I built my PC in 2010 and its starting to show its age and I have a I terabyte SSD, an Nvidia GeForce 1070 graphics card and 32 GiGs of RAM.
Don’t forget to over clock it and you can play doom better.
>>and a good Linux installation keeps it from getting bogged down with MS >>flotsam.
>>It’s very difficult to get rid of MS flotsam.
>>And I’m a professional.
This is a good place for me to add, “Windows is the virus”.
Still fighting the MS virus...
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