ShutterbugDoug, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

@Extelec For those who don't know: #Boulder, #Colorado: #NCAR / #UCAR a research site with a long association with #Cray #supercomputer
https://cray-history.net/2022/01/08/ncar-ucar-a-research-site-with-a-long-association-with-cray-supercomputers/

NCAR Archives YouTube channel video: Cray 1A history discussion/virtual tour
https://youtu.be/6vHDGHpocgQ

tshirtman, 7 months ago

@Extelec > go west

> you've been killed by a grue.

SDWolf, 7 months ago

@Extelec xyzzy

elricofmelnibone, 7 months ago

@Extelec You hear a vague humming noise coming from the north east. The floor beneath your feet is covered in dried blood.

jackwellborn, 7 months ago

@Extelec @jon_alper

“So what do you run on?”

“ENTER MY MOU..UH...MY ACCESS ENTRY, AND I WILL SHOW YOU!”

Beltliner403, 7 months ago

@Extelec “You are likely to be eaten by a grue.”

Christiansurrey, 7 months ago

@Extelec Oh my! Soooo good!

JenWojcik, 7 months ago

@Extelec Cray Supercomputers one of my headhunting clients back in the day. :)

mhartle, 7 months ago

@Extelec go west

Extelec, 7 months ago

@mhartle You see a construction worker, a police man and a native American.

PricklyHeart, 7 months ago

@Extelec
Well played.

JeffMorgan, 7 months ago

@Extelec grues, gonna have him as soon as his chum turns the light out.

RLIBlog, 7 months ago

@Extelec You call this a super computer?

Extelec, 7 months ago

@RLIBlog Yey, lasers and flashy lights.

Its a Super computer alright.

funkaspuck, 7 months ago

@Extelec I want a Cray so bad even if just for furniture

plinth, 7 months ago

@Extelec PLUGH

failedLyndonLaRouchite, 7 months ago

@Extelec
circa 1995, MIT, the "infinite corridor"
sign: we have a SOTA Cray !!

and you can enter a room with the operating manuals which are, I kid you not, several hundred very large orange looseleaf binders

did I say several hundred ?

ernstgreiner, 7 months ago

@Extelec
You got eaten by pacman

Extelec, 7 months ago

@ernstgreiner Yes, his name is Grue.

Dtl, 7 months ago

@Extelec
"It is pitch black. Your dinner is likely to arrive soon.."

Extelec, 7 months ago

@Dtl expect GRUEl

camstonefaux, 7 months ago

@Extelec This is how TRON started, isn’t it…

f4grx, 7 months ago

@Extelec dang, thats a lot of tape reels!

jspath55, 7 months ago

@Extelec Twisty!

amoroso, 7 months ago

@Extelec

FETCH TAPE 285

camstonefaux, 7 months ago

@Extelec @amoroso

amoroso, 7 months ago

@camstonefaux Well, it sort of qualifies.

Extelec, 7 months ago

@amoroso Tape isn't here.

amoroso, 7 months ago

@Extelec Well, I thought the tape might have been among the hundreds at the back of the room 😀

f4grx, 7 months ago

@amoroso @Extelec LOAD HEADS DISK 3

DeltaWye, 7 months ago

@Extelec I’d like to perform an arcana check on the Cray supercomputer.

camstonefaux, 7 months ago

@DeltaWye @Extelec
Roll for WIS check… wait… nvm… it’d fail no matter the circumstances. There is a hardware switch in front of you, do you flip it?

DeltaWye, 7 months ago

@camstonefaux @Extelec Oh hell and of course there’s no listing of switches for the Cray-1 or Cray-2… man I hope this isn’t bad.

Is the Cray running? Like a status for the motor generators?

Ah screw it, I flip the switch. Boy I hope that’s not a Halon system.

camstonefaux, 7 months ago

@DeltaWye @Extelec Yup, it was the halon dump. The system is shut down, the alarms are blaring, lights are flashing, and there is an angry sysadmin glaring at you. Not everyone gets to put this on their resume… so, congratulations!

Extelec, 7 months ago

@camstonefaux @DeltaWye Oh, and you can't breathe...

DeltaWye, 7 months ago

@Extelec @camstonefaux Constitution saving throw?

Extelec, 7 months ago

@DeltaWye @camstonefaux Here, try my D1

DeltaWye, 7 months ago

@Extelec @camstonefaux “
“So here’s the thing: they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king.
Engraved in black, it had no front or back. But there were words around the band that said ‘Just know - this too shall pass.’”

• Danny Schmidt, “This Too shall Pass”