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The $400 |Super Computer
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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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1 posted on 08/18/2022 8:03:49 PM PDT by ganeemead
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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.


2 posted on 08/18/2022 8:09:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: ganeemead

How is that ’super’ ?


3 posted on 08/18/2022 8:11:59 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Bkmk


4 posted on 08/18/2022 8:13:43 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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How is that ’super’ ?

The author means a "super computer" by older definitions. A little hyperbolic, but an SSD does breathe new life into old hardware, and a good Linux installation keeps it from getting bogged down with MS flotsam.
5 posted on 08/18/2022 8:15:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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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.

6 posted on 08/18/2022 8:26:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ganeemead

The fool who wrote this doesn’t even know there actually is such a thing as a supercomputer. A blockchain blog...


7 posted on 08/18/2022 8:31:28 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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A very old saying: “With Windows (1.0) you will believe your new 386 PC will fly like a 286 running DOS.”


8 posted on 08/18/2022 8:32:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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9 posted on 08/18/2022 8:55:42 PM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
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To: ganeemead

Bookmark.


10 posted on 08/18/2022 9:03:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Figured this was about 2nd-hand smartphones


11 posted on 08/18/2022 9:24:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ganeemead

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.


12 posted on 08/18/2022 9:30:09 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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I’ve a buddy who does something like this. He has a Beowulf cluster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster


13 posted on 08/18/2022 9:33:51 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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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.


14 posted on 08/18/2022 9:38:41 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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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.


15 posted on 08/18/2022 9:47:21 PM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
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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...


16 posted on 08/18/2022 9:53:36 PM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
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“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.


17 posted on 08/18/2022 10:20:03 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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Don’t forget to over clock it and you can play doom better.


18 posted on 08/18/2022 10:22:50 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: kiryandil

>>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”.


19 posted on 08/18/2022 10:36:57 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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Still fighting the MS virus...


20 posted on 08/18/2022 10:51:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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