Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week?
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Assuming I have protein strains data for Alzheimer’s patients along with their ancestors data and assuming I know the protein which if in excess causes this disease, I can attempt to find out what can be a possible cause of this disease. Supercomputer will be really helpful to these kind of pattern matching searches and run protein visualization tools.
I would secure access for longer than a week:
./john /etc/shadow
./john /etc/shadow
Only today I heard a story from a friend about a lab assistant he worked with that did just that in the early nineties. The only mistake he made was calling the executable "password-cracker".
Heck, I've had access to a supercomputer for years and I still don't know what to do with it "to help mankind".
Run my map-reduce as a single task. :)
I did think of that, but I realized that there wasn't too much additional value because map-reduce can be run cheaply enough on Hadoop clusters via EC2. I wonder if there are other ideas that this would open up.
Rent it out to other programmers ;)
de-pixelate censored images?
...what, no?
...what, no?
(for your startup, for mankind, for fun, etc...)