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Cray SV1 Named Best Supercomputer for 2001

Posted by Hemos on from the and-the-winnnaaahhh dept.

zoombat writes "The BBC reported that the Cray SV1 product line won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Supercomputer for 2001 by the readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine. These beasts have some pretty remarkable stats, including a 300 Mhz CPU clock, up to 192 4.8 GFLOPS CPUs or 1229 1.2 GFLOPS CPUs, and up to a terabyte of memory. And they sure know how to paint 'em real nice. Of course, we all know how "scientific" the Readers' Choice Awards are..."

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  1. Yeah, but... by JBowz15 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What I want to know is what supercomputer wins the award for congeniality?

  2. Re:Beowulf? by Detritus · · Score: 3, Funny
    Real computers aren't named after some Danish nob with a sword.

    Real computers are designed in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Real computers have high-speed interleaved main memory, and lots of it. Cache is for losers who can't afford a real memory system.

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  3. Can you imagine... by Nastard · · Score: 5, Funny

    just one of these?

  4. Criteria used: by Giant+Hairy+Spider · · Score: 3, Funny
    • Does it sound familiar when we fill in this blank: "____ Supercomputer," with the company name?
    • Bigness of numbers.
    • Number of words that we don't understand. (ji... ga... flop?)
    • Cool paint job.
    • Number of clever supercomputer jokes accumulated around the brand. (Apple used a Cray to design their chips, Cray used an Apple to design...)
    • How easily could we imagine the case of this computer as concealing a hostile intelligence?
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