alt Hacker NewsHigh end compute also existed in the 60’s.
The military has already mastered fusion (power), and likely has mastered gravity in some form in secret. They aren’t using mainstream compute for these discoveries
High end compute also existed in the 60’s.
The military has already mastered fusion (power), and likely has mastered gravity in some form in secret. They aren’t using mainstream compute for these discoveries
> High end compute also existed in the 60’s.
Believe me, I know-- my dad did some work on the 360/44 and other large systems.
High end late 1960s compute -- of the sort used to go to the moon or to design big nuclear weapons -- was roughly 486DX4-100 class. Not individual computers; the total computing at DOE or NASA. Of course, it would be hard to replace either with a single 486 because of availability, usage at different geographic locations, etc.
You can assume a single large AMD Threadripper machine ($25k?) outclasses late-1960s DoE by roughly a factor of 50,000. And that assumes you didn't bother to put a GPU in it.
> The military has already mastered fusion (power), and likely has mastered gravity in some form in secret. They aren’t using mainstream compute for these discoveries
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