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more about #cray chadsircy001: Fifty years from now someone is going to buy this off of ebay, turn it into a clock and post it on hackaday. more » KingRadical: Maybe I'm just bieng anal, but 'petaflops-per-second' is redundant. FLOPS stands for Floating Point Operations Per Second. Also, typo: 'Then it surpa... more » Markarian: Long live Cray. #jaguar more » Twanzio: U.S. has 8 of the top 10 spots when it comes to supercomputers? USA! USA! USA! #jaguar more » :negated:: It could've been worse: They could've tastelessly slapped a metric ton of EL accents, LEDs, and useless slabs of lucite on that bitch, cutting multipl... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: So, stickers really do make your car go faster? #jaguar more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Accordingly, the next in the Cray line will now be called "Cool-Ass Airbrushed Wizard Slaying Dragon, Bro" and will play Blue Oyster Cult songs at sta... more » AlphaPepper: Thanks for reminding me of my beloved Atari Jaguar. #jaguar more » Hello Mister Walrus: So the new center of the electronic world is... Tennessee? Who knew?? #jaguar more » Michai: " 1.74 quadrillion floating points operation" <----- My response, "Holy shit!" Following Moore's law, can you imagine in 50 years when personal co... more » Monty: Dude, Apple dumped the Jaguar release years ago since it had significant user interface and speed issues - they need to get Snow Leopard on this thing... more » Knowitallguytherevenge: oh, FIRST! #jaguar more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I always cringed when someone talked about troubleshooting one of these. The wires were all the same damn color in it... more » JawzX2: Hoon The Earth @ www.cafepress.com/jawzx2: The thing that always gets me about the old Crays is how beautiful they were. Functional and elegant in an obscenely complex way. The workmanship and ... more » oldgraygeek: I knew a guy in Maryland who owned a Cray, and ran it in his dining room. He bought it from LearJet for $10K cash, hauled it home in a rented truck, a... more » strider_mt2k: Originally these were used to make crayons. "Crayolla! It's magic!" one would yell as yet another oiece of brightly colored creativity fuel was dropp... more » .- -. --- -. -.-- -- --- ..- ... / .. ... / .-.. . --. .. --- -.: Speed: 160 MFLOPS Heehee, we're up to teraflops now amirite? Take that! seventies! more » PaddyDugan: Can one of you geniuses give us a mathmatical comparison? What does 4MW of memory and 160 mflops equal in today's terms? more » -
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World's Fastest Supercomputer Is World's Largest, Tackiest Case Mod Too
This is Jaguar, the new King of the Petaputer Hill, running at 1.75 petaflops-per-second. The Cray XT5 supercomputer was behind IBM's Roadrunnner for more than a year, until some clever scientist decided to paint a running Jaguar all over it. More » -
#computers
Cray-1: The Super Computer
Seymour Cray's big super computer was crazy. It's signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. More » -
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IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer
It's like a geek soap opera. Just last week, Cray bragged that their updated Jaguar XT supercomputer was the world's fastest. Now this week, IBM responds to the trash talk with a number one ranking of their Roadrunner system on the newly published Top500 supercomputing list. More »
