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kleinbl00 · 3108 days ago · link · · parent · post: The New AMD video cards are making me excited to build a new PC for the first time in years.
Yeah, LANL built one of those back in 2000. Nobody used it, it was a pain in the ass, and they decommissioned it in 2008. Think that sucker was built out of command & control multipanels. Think it cost in the millions. Think the novelty is exciting, but think the utility is marginal at best.
user-inactivated · 3108 days ago · link ·
Some friends and I built one with displays dumpster dived from a theme park and some old SGI boxen dumpster dived from the engineering department. LANL's was probably much nicer than ours, but they don't have to be that expensive to build, bored college students can figure out how to do it for almost-free, you just need to dedicate a lot of space to something you'll rarely have a use for.