[patio11]

At a previous day job we used n-queens to benchmark distributed computing, as it is disgustingly parallelizable and produces nice visual results.

[pedrombafonso]

Thanks for your answer! Do you know about any real life application for that problem?

[patio11]

If you're freezing to death inside of a computer cluster n-queens will save your life.

[lucastx]

laughing out loud, here.

took me some seconds to understand this subtle one.