Re:Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
by iancmceachern on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:49PM
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My favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-plays...
When the DoE claimed the PS3 could be a dual purpose munition, they weren’t kidding.
Re:Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
by PaulRobinson on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:59AM
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Saddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.
He also had WMDs. /s
Re:Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
by iancmceachern on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:09PM
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And Anna Nicole married for love
(Great line in the movie Shooter"
They were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.
However the Sony Cell had just a PowerPC controlling core. The real magic, and why it was used in supercomputers at the time, is in its Stream cores; they were highly tailored for vector and floating point maths.
About the same headline number as a $350 Xbox Series X! Although fp64 vs fp32 and Linpack vs peak.
You forgot the best part: It was colloquially referred to as the “Big Mac”.
First capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20040724145729/http://www.tcf.vt...
Last capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20070606024231/http://www.tcf.vt...
An FAQ from somewhere in the middle - https://web.archive.org/web/20060708113430/http://www.tcf.vt...
https://www.top500.org/system/173736/
When it was commissioned in 2004, this array of 1100x Apple PowerPC 970 systems was the 7th most powerful computer on the list.
It's Linpack Performance was 12,250.00 GFlop/s.