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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. he isn't running his webserver on it, is he? by blair1q · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because it just got slashdotted...

  2. Pretty cool! by oldhack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the sorta hack that should feature on the front page, instead of machining tin can case and similar tripes.

    Hope he gets some software for that thing.

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  3. Re:But by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't everything run Windows?

    Everything runs Linux, but Windows seems to run everything.

  4. Re:Wow! by firewood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Half the fun of explaining the Cray 1 during museum tours was comparing its cycle time to the time it took light from the nearby ceiling spotlight to hit the Cray. At 33 MHz that would require a really tall room.

  5. Really cool by cygnwolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Again one of those instances where it'd be nice to be able to mod articles. This is the kind of stuff that needs to be on slashdot.

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