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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. Re:The originals really are something else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who cares about your faggot couch. What are you going to do, fuck your homosexual ass-lover on it! What I want to know is does this thing run Microsoft Windows 7. Because if it doesn't, it is worthless shit along with all of the other worthless freetard shit out there like ARM, Power, et al.