The year was 2017. Machine learning was still a teenager, throwing tantrums in Python scripts. Cryptocurrency miners were the new gold rush. And Aris—a man whose first love was the 8086 assembly language—had been given the keys to a monstrous supercomputing node at a defense lab buried under Cheyenne Mountain’s lesser-known cousin, Mount Morrison.
At 2:00 AM, after the lab emptied, Aris ran a second simulation. Not for the defense contract. For himself. intel parallel studio xe 2017