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If this is not the correct way to use a 64-Core Processor, I don't know what is

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- What is your level of multi processing programming skills? - Unparalleled!

The "Bad Apple!!" music video, with its monochrome silhouette aesthetic, has been the subject of many other creative rendering hack demonstrations using esoteric means.

Laser art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8Hg6LsPn0

Oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSkUX1g4oJM

Microsoft Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lUngqOn2w

Stop motion animation via carved apples (literally): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSz00lTjeyU

On an eink display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8M_MV3Xhw&app=desktop

You could get this effect naturally for a Mandelbrot zoom calculation where each thread iterates the orbit until it escapes, then pauses for a second and repeats

I did something like this once upon a time, drawing letters using the CPU graph: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/33226

Of course, using a super multi core processor as a display is significantly more sophisticated and just funnier. Props to the developer for their creativity!

This is an amusing piece of performance art, but, clearly, a better use of this display would be to play Pong. ;)

If you're going for a videogame then it could still be Touhou :)

I don't think you have enough pixels to work with.

The video shows 14x9 pixels, with 2 left over. There are 128 threads.

Bad Apple!! is such a nicely animated video.

Add more cores and you'd increase the resolution that you can play your video at.

Okay, who has another idea to burn an equivalent amount of energy :) ?

When power-saving states for CPUs were still new and Windows support was still lacking, there was a 3rd party tool that would decrease the idle temperature of my Athlon XP by creating artificial load with a low process priority. It would basically replace the System Idle Process and put the CPU in some new P-state.

Is there some standard way in *nix/Windows to create artificial CPU load while actually not increasing the energy consumption at all?

It's still useful if you want to run Windows 95 in a VM.

Wrong platform but this is 'kernel_task' on Mac OS X and it runs automatically when cpu temp gets high.

I remember using Rain too.

Thanks for the name! Apparently, there were a bunch of tools with the same purpose: http://coolingsoftware.homepage.t-online.de/index.htm

Oooh i used cpuidle! That brought me memories.

i mean, you can always mine bitcoin...

lol; you could probably mark generations by whether you reach for "rebuild gentoo" or "mine BTC" as the first option for maxing out your load...

Just building LLVM and Chrome together probably take longer than emerge --emptytree @world on my Gentoo box.

Prime95 should be in there somewhere.

128 Doom demos, obvs.

The product. Fabrausch

I wish reddit didn't intentionally ruin their mobile version to force people onto the app. Video constantly buffers and only plays or pauses when it wants to even though my internet is fine.

Just use the old site by swapping "www" with "old": https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/hbx72t/if_thi...

Oh, so that's why video and scrolling on reddit is so awful in a browser. Makes sense now. I thought maybe it was just my phone.

i.reddit.com still works. I’m sure there is some way to auto convert links to that format.

Videos will only play in desktop or the new mobile

RIF is Fun app (Android) works much, much better than the new mobile, and is somewhat less creepy than the official Reddit app.

Or old.Reddit.com (replace www with old)

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