Cray-1 Supercomputer 30th Anniversary

[humlakullen]

Yeah, but will it play Crysis..?

[indori71]

i'd like to be there

[truhlikfredy]

Wow, excellent video, I wish there was more videos like this, not featured dumb blond chicks showing they half naked body, or insane Russian risking his life. I was born in 1982 so I don't feel very worthy commenting, but anyway I couldn't resist. They should be making safety driving videos and adds explaining who else you could kill while you risk yours life. I just wonder, here are some employers if they could answer it. What was his opinion on FPGAs?

[DVAFP]

i wonder what they have now that is classified

[lostinxlation]

Started by Seymour Cray, mid 60s to mid 90s was the golden age of supercomputing. But the sad truth is that such specialized computers started to make no business sense and CD's gone, Cray's gone, Thinking machines' gone, Convex's gone, Intel's supercomputer project's gone. Only IBM and 2 others are still doing business with supercomputers today, and no new companies has been started for a long time.

[themountainviewguy]

What a wonderful and moving tribute to a great man and a great trip down memory lane.

[themountainviewguy]

The thing on the left is the IOP ... the IO/Processor, Subsystem works too, but the transparent panel that lets you peek inside let's you see-more Cray! ;-)

[themountainviewguy]

Someone forgot to mention the Fire Truck company from Chippewa Falls ... maybe they don't exist anymore. Cool presentation!

[chrisinmainz]

Wonder how much it would cost to get a cray-1 these days. I haven't seen any on Ebay, although I did see a CRAY j90 for $4000, which you can probably double with shipping. . .

[themountainviewguy]

You could get one for free if you can find it in a junk heap, it would just cost you a small fortune to run it, and it would break immediately if you did. You need a motor generator and cooling tower, and lost of ECL parts. I worked on a Cray-1 once. Lost of junk aluminum in one though, and copper from the power supplies. Nice video!

[roffpoff]

without investigating it...I believe in megaflops , you can compare it with a Pentium 2, around 300Mhz.

Have no idea about input_/output speeds. Can someone correct me on this ?

[planefreak3]

thanks, it had 2-3 tb of ram, right?

[themountainviewguy]

Apple Computer used to have a metallic purple Cray X-MP with 8MW ... that's 8 Mega 64-bit words ... 64 MBs with ECC parity. Not very poweful by todays standards.

[planefreak3]

what was the cray's clock speed?

[jamesjan]

amazing history of this great machine.

and on a side note, Bo Ewald have effing nice big arms. :P

hats off to whoever posted this vid.

[cajetanus]

Thank you very much for this video! There is so much that they don't teach in Computer Science now. I wish these speakers would give some more lectures - it's fascinating how these machines worked !

[dewgy32]

i use to build the cray t90 series in chippewa falls

[abecedddario]

Excuse me for my ignorance. Ho would you compare the speed of a Coreduo2 processor of today to a cray computer of the 80´s? Sorry for the silly question.

:)

[joejoe133]

cray-1 is 100mflops core 2 duo 2.6 is 18tflops

[doseryder]

so a c2d 2.6 would be roughly 180 times faster (flops-wise)than a cray-1. Is cray-1a SMP system or a single-core processor system?

Thx

[joejoe133]

c2d is 180 times faster than cray-1

[Appule69]

I thought the fastest Core 2 Duo (The E8600) was 26 GFLOPs.

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

My e6400 at 3.2ghz can manage to get roughly 21-22 GFLOPS.

[watchandlearn99]

outfisherman you`re my hero!! I`ve always had the utmost respect for people in the lab who actually develop these machines. I really don`t imagine any better job than being responsible for developing the most powerful tools known to man. I hope I get a chance in my lifetime to ever work on these machines, since I`m getting into IT industry myself. Given a chance I`d choose science over boardroom any day.