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Time For A Cray Comeback?
Boone^ writes "The New York Times has an article (free reg. req.) talking about Cray Inc.'s recent resurgence in the realm of supercomputing. It discusses a bit of Cray's decline when the Cold War ended, "the occupation" under SGI, and the rebirth of the company after the Tera (now Cray Inc.) purchase. Recently Cray Inc. has been shipping their vector-based Cray X1 machine, designing ASCI Red Storm, and recently was one of 3 (also Sun, IBM) to win a large DARPA contract (PDF link) to design and develop a PetaFlops machine by 2010. Could Cray Inc. be poised for a comeback? Wall Street seems to think so."
Of course I expect that...in my Playstation IV,
equipped with an opto-quantic Emotion Engine VI
and a couple petabytes of holographic storage.
-><- no
It's SUPER! Off-the-shelf components are just kind of "Meh."
There's a whole bunch of PETAFlops outside of McDonalds right now having a sit in and screaming about how fur is murder.
I had to literally step on their faces to get a Big Mac.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
is there a secret message here? should tom ridge be called?
2 1337 4 u!
can someone explain to me what the benefit of a moving van is compared to buying a fleet of pintos?
SCO vs Nike
Look at me, I'm a stock analyst!
Then there's the question of ... what do you need a supercomputer for? The applications are pretty limited for a need for a petaflop computer, unless your doing mass storage, cryptography (cracking), or simulations.
You're missing the big picture...
Massive multiplayer Quake on a 614,400 x 819,200 screen.
Thank you Cray.
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You can't haul the A-Team around in a Pinto.
Does it hurt to hear them lying? Was this the only world you had?
Because there are more games for the Cray than the Mac.
(I'm a Mac user. I get to make this joke.)
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
My next couch should be a Cray..
"Well, a well engineered supercomputer has much less overhead than a cluster. One superfast processor doesn't have to deal with interprocessor communications like a cluster does."
I like the way Cray put it:
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
And how about a few more Cray quotes?
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
I wonder what he's using now? a Palmpilot?
I don't get it either. I've been sitting in front of this Cray supercomputer trying to copy a 17M file from one hard drive to another and it's taking forever. BBEdit has slowed to a halt....