Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week?

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:<p>./john /etc/shadow

Or, say in 1988 you were told you could have a 2008 PC for a week... That's a bigger jump in power for most people than what you're suggesting.

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. :)

Rent it out to other programmers ;)

de-pixelate censored images?<p>...what, no?