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- TrevorFSmithI know it's pedantic but this is a tribute or a re-envisioning but it's not a replica.
- ameliusIsn't the limit of supercomputing more about the data link speed than about the actual node compute speed?
- fortran77Can it run Cray-1 software? The architecture is completely different. I coudn't get that from the article. It seems like a large cluster of Macs arranged superficially to look like a Cray-1.
- bitfilpedI don't get it, an actual Cray-1 getting refurbed would be much more exciting.
- ginko>The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?
- mrlonglongThey could rent out all that compute to subsidy the museum running costs.
- ck2imagine showing even the first iphone to a Cray engineer in 1976they'd lose their minds lol(Cray-1 was 160 megaflops, smartphones are teraflops)
- latchkeyThe picture with all the cables everywhere... ugh that sets off my OCD.