Homebrew Cray-1

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @05:00AM from the when-i-was-a-child dept.

egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."

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Apparently... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-08-31 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Not even a cray supercomputer can survive the slashdot effect.
1. Re:Apparently... by MarkRose · 2010-08-31 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hey! The computer predates Slashdot by two decades, for craying out loud!
  
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2. Re:Apparently... by idontgno · 2010-08-31 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I Seymour what you did there.
  
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3. Re:Apparently... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-08-31 07:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I hope you realise that jokes of this quality will get you downmodded. And when that happens, don't come craying to me.
Re:Xilinx... by blair1q · 2010-08-31 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

And you've been playing WoW on it ever since.
Re:No software by WrongSizeGlass · 2010-08-31 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

He has the needed software for the FPGA, but he has (so far) been unable to find some software to run on the machine. At least that is what I got from the TFA. It seems like no-one (including various 3 letter agencies) have copies of stuff so "old".

Maybe he'd have better luck finding old software if ageism wasn't rampant in the IT industry ;-)