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Last time I was talking about demoverse (demoscene metaverse).
Now I have idea about "supercomputing" demoscene...
Probably noone will have supercomputer at home but what about:

1. 10x Raspberry PI 3 demo?
2. NVDIA TESLA demo?
3. NVDIA Jetson TK1 demo ?
4. Parallala Board demo (18core)?
and similar SBC / superGPU equivalents...

But, but... today we have home computers which can beat your yesterday supercomputers...

I actually did a demo on the Jetson TK1, with a friend. It felt like doing a "normal" linux demo though, just that the computer was quite tiny. Oh yeah, and hacking Kinect Input was spicy ^^

If you're interested : here you go

too bad for your stupid idea is that these days most visuals happen on a GPU so you're better off with an SLI of multiple GPUs in one machine than an array of CPUs/computers. you might for example be able to watch 5 Faces in 4K@120fps with a few Titans!!!!

Go make a demo about it™

I have access to a Cray XC-40 at work, and it's completely useless for any kind of demoscene work.

urs, but we DID use your cray for precomputation for one of our prods!

This is the only thing that comes to mind, for Cray CX1, perhaps more of a "personal supercomputer". Not very good demo either though as I recall.

Didn't some Alternative Party have some kind of a "supercomputer" demo compo that was mostly fractal zoomers?

Yeah, that's what just posted :)

This Animation was made with a Supercomputer, I think.

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/im-idea-guy.html

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy

https://sivers.org/multiply

Yeah about that... what exactly is that idea of yours? Please tell me it's something loftier than "pls make supercomputer demos". Scene has more issues with the actual content and results, especially design-wise, than the tools we use #2cents

Maybe implement the Message Passing Interface for OCS Amiga and do some massively distributed computation over floppies!

Nowadays everything is made for C64, so better have MPI over 1541 iface :)

Cassettes are much better!

here's an idea. why not make every demo also a pineapple?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mhwAJM12U

Tape based C64 MPI cluster for the win. Node alive timeout is six months.

@gasman: nice collection of links, my thoughts exactly ^^

Especially:

^^^

That being said, I did some work on a cluster with CPU/GPU hybrid nodes in grad school and I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would make implementing a highres raytracer impossible on such a platform. Definitely some problems to tackle though.

You would certainly get some funny looks.

I wanna see a demo with a reflective fractal run a lot of assets in Realtime.
A forest woth individual physical leaves that are not particles.

3d grass that is volumetric and not planar polygons.

I want to walk on grass defined by signed distance functions.