To: dayglored
I worked at LLNL and was one of the many users of LLNL's Cray One. In those days it was the dream machine. I think it was running at 25 mflops. That was when we had hard drives that were about the size of a Volkswagen with huge spinning platters about 4 ft in diameter. We were developing the nuclear weapons that finally won the cold war without firing a shot. As a side note, my current desktop computer is about 20 times faster than the Cray one.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
To: Varmint Al
I read somewhere that the Cray 1 ran at 170Mips
I have 25 cent 32 bit micro-controllers that can do better than that.
The 100mhz ARM that controls an ordinary SD card is more powerful.
We live in amazing times :-)
12 posted on
10/02/2015 7:23:16 PM PDT by
Bobalu
(Russians.... not ashamed of being white!)
To: Varmint Al
I just looked at your Freeper page, and then at your engineering page... impressive my FRiend.
I love meeting someone smarter than myself... I think we would enjoy each others company :-)
13 posted on
10/02/2015 7:28:22 PM PDT by
Bobalu
(Russians.... not ashamed of being white!)
To: Varmint Al
The advantage of the Cray 1 was not the vector registers, tho' they were cool; it was that fact that even in scalar mode, the machine was 10x as fast as anything else out there. :-)
15 posted on
10/02/2015 7:33:22 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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