Harvard Student Uses 14,000-Core Supercomputer to Mine Dogecoin
A student at Harvard was caught using the University's massive computing power to mine Dogecoin. Supercomputers are pretty amazing. They're mostly used for research since they specialise in processing, analysing, and doing computations on ridiculous amounts of data at high speeds. Supercomputer simulations have been used to understand earthquakes, model pandemics, predict the weather, and more. Harvard University has its own supercomputing cluster called Odyssey, which boasts a 14,000 core Intel Xeon architecture with over 10 TB of RAM. But unlike most researchers, one student at Harvard....
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