SRL Archive - NOTA

Read a thread on how many bots can your computer handle/etc.; not the point of this thread, but an idea of how I came to think of this NOTA thread, "Cores 'n stuff."

I'm curious, what are huge cores/thread used for?

I read that computers with giant numbers of cores, such as 336 in Ambric (wiki source) machines can be used for medical equipment such as x-rays (I found a conflict source, another wiki, that said 13k cores?…). I am curious what other applications such large/unheard of computers use that / that+more amount of cores. Specifics/examples also help ^.^

Cheers,
Lj

Playing Chess. Figuring out Pi.

predicting natural disasters and space science.

Another application for them is finding ridiculously large prime numbers that have yet to be found, the military apparently uses them for encryption.

~Caotom

Showing of how powerful a governments IT department is.

Calculating mathematical problems.

Somehow they are able to test medical treatments with them.