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Homebrew Cray-1

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Apparently... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not even a cray supercomputer can survive the slashdot effect.

    1. Re:Apparently... by MarkRose · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey! The computer predates Slashdot by two decades, for craying out loud!

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    2. Re:Apparently... by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

      I Seymour what you did there.

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