[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 102, Issue 16

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Fri May 20 10:29:32 CDT 2011


On 05/20/11 02:28, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 05:29 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
>>
>> Along those lines, I was thinking it would be cool ( or hot in this 
>> case ) to use a Cray-1 as a water heater.
>>
>> I can see it now ... OK dear, you want to take a long hot shower, let 
>> me start the Cray on finding digits to pi :)
>>
> LOL yes that would be cool...but can  you imagine what you would need to 
> compute if she wanted to go in the hottub...:-)

Eh.  a(4,4) ought to do it...

Actually you probably need something that parallelizes better than that.
 Model the convection currents in the hot tub water at the atomic level.  :)

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