@owl the Cray-2 introduced Fluorinert immersion cooling (note: not actually inert, do not bathe in the refrigerated liquid)
@th I'm afraid that I would end up like that woman in Superman 3 if I get too close to that one.
@th *angry Butlerian jihadi noises*
@karchie @th I use this approach to create my animations and patterns.
Lisp / parallel per pixel execution / single instruction multiple data
Beneath this folder are #Clojure programs in which the (rgb ...) and (hsv ...) expressions are converted over several stages into code for the GPU.
https://gitlab.com/metagrowing/ana/-/tree/master/live_coding/src
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU has about 4000 cores.
Even complex animations run at 30 fps and can be reprogrammed on the fly.
More about "analog Not analog"
https://metagrowing.org/
@karchie @th Since Lisp uses the same syntax for data and executable code, you think the short code snippets are executed as a program. But to the layer below, they are just data being transformed into another program / notation.
This fitting of the DSL to the task is not difficult with Lisp. It belongs there to the standard.
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@th Woah, indeed, they looked even cooler when in operation! (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation)
@th It does :) "Computer Architecture" surely meant something different back then...
@th Great black design with the red blinking LEDs. Daniel Hillis wrote a nice intro book on computers called Pattern on the Stone and got involved in the Long Now foundation; well that's a design ;)
@th @pesco There was a time, when Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, was doing odd jobs in the office of the company, like buying office supplies. https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/
@th they still do: https://oxide.computer ;) /cc @bcantrill & @ahl {though have not seen one in the flesh yet... one day...} I also still like the Blue Gene slanted style and the good old bench Crays ;)
@th That was just RB (red and black). XD
@th What was the one that was cooled with synthetic "blood?"