I bet the babes are flocking to his basement now.

It will perfectly complement his race car bed frame.

Cool...in a pathetic,sad,lonely sort of way.

*single tear*

Its.......Beautiful

my buddy is going to be pissed, he was working on this same thing.

/no, seriously
//don't hate, it's good to have geek friends

Supercomputer geek builds Cray-1 around home PC

Full text must have been cut off. Should read:

Supercomputer geek builds Cray-1 around home PC, masturbates.

That guy has a massive e-penis.
/too bad his real penis never been used before

A modern PC is definitely capable of WAY WAY more than 250 MFLOPs. Of course, that's not the only measure of performance.

KillAllHumans: *single tear*

Its.......Beautiful

I prefer naked breasts.

What's funny is that the real first (serial #1) Cray is now, basically, a bench in the lobby of one of Los Alamos' computer facilities.

At least it was a few years ago when I worked there, so it might have moved since. But it was always funny to walk by it.

Mnemia: A modern PC is definitely capable of WAY WAY more than 250 MFLOPs. Of course, that's not the only measure of performance.

How true. I bet the original CRAY never bricked on a flash app...

HumbleGenius: KillAllHumans: *single tear*

Its.......Beautiful

I prefer naked breasts.



Not naked but you can use her to find some.

I was going to add like the poster above what's the point of a scale model when it was designed to be used as furniture as well.

Then I read the nice write up on wikipedia and found that the original was 5.5 tons. Dang

I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but I think this sentence is way off:

"An irony is that the resulting scale model Cray-1, seen below, is probably more powerful than Cray's original near 40-year-old design."

Probably? Isn't that quite the understatement?

Aren't today's multicore machines approaching 100 GFlops?

Wouldn't that be 400 times faster than the 250 MFlops reported in the article?

Are those seats around the Cray? I never really understood the design.

Phooey. I agree with the furniture thing, imagine if it was actual size, teched out!

That said...
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volcs0:

Aren't today's multicore machines approaching 100 GFlops?

Wouldn't that be 400 times faster than the 250 MFlops reported in the article?

Confirmed, new ones are tops in flops.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I love all the people braying about how nerdy, lonely, and unsexed the creator must be. It's not hard to spot burning jealousy.

Jealousy and contempt are perfectly compatible.

There is a little computer shop near my Alma Mater that used to have a glass case around the cashier with a bunch of oddities in it.

One of these oddities was a 1 meg Cray ram module, which was about the size of a carburetor.

biatchin'

HumbleGenius: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I love all the people braying about how nerdy, lonely, and unsexed the creator must be. It's not hard to spot burning jealousy.

Jealousy and contempt are perfectly compatible.

Especially now that contempt uses Pentium processors.

Nah...that's alright.
Cool item, but I've proven I'm geek enough,
by being 42 and still playing D&D, liking comics,
setting up a linux cluster with Oracle replication at home just to "play with",
being on the web (and Fark) at all hours of the day and night
and coming up with cutting-edge Physics theories and inventions.

Not so much to say what I do, but just state something to roll my eyes at myself.

oh well, as long as I balanced it out with other non-"nerd" things, (Dating, Travel, Sports, Parties, Sex, etc)
I guess being a Geek is now cool, it would have been nice to have it be that way back in HS.

/yes, I still remember back then...

rogue49: Nah...that's alright.
Cool item, but I've proven I'm geek enough,
by being 42 and still playing D&D, liking comics,
setting up a linux cluster with Oracle replication at home just to "play with",
being on the web (and Fark) at all hours of the day and night
and coming up with cutting-edge Physics theories and inventions.

Not so much to say what I do, but just state something to roll my eyes at myself.

oh well, as long as I balanced it out with other non-"nerd" things, (Dating, Travel, Sports, Parties, Sex, etc)
I guess being a Geek is now cool, it would have been nice to have it be that way back in HS.

/yes, I still remember back then...

Dork

CygnusDarius: HumbleGenius: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I love all the people braying about how nerdy, lonely, and unsexed the creator must be. It's not hard to spot burning jealousy.

Jealousy and contempt are perfectly compatible.

Especially now that contempt uses Pentium processors.

I bow to the greater wit.

Still can't run Crysis when it's maxed out.

That walk-in shower has some nice wood paneling.

/Supercomputer what now?

RandomAxe: It is beautiful, but half the Cray's cachet came from its function as furniture. Building a small replica is just not as cool as building a full-sized one.


Cat can lay on it.

Mnemia: A modern PC is definitely capable of WAY WAY more than 250 MFLOPs. Of course, that's not the only measure of performance.

Who cares about performance? This thing is awesome.

GeeksAreMyPeeps: That is all

I like the nautical steering wheel.

GeeksAreMyPeeps: That is all

Da pixels! I can see 'em!

stuhayes2010: Are those seats around the Cray? I never really understood the design.

I believe that the cooling equipment is housed inside the seats, but I could be wrong.

And yes, you can use it as a couch.

stuhayes2010: Are those seats around the Cray? I never really understood the design.

They're freon refrigeration units. (new window)

GeeksAreMyPeeps: That is all

The funny thing about that picture is that if you went back in time, and showed them a model of a standard ATX beige box computer from 2004 they would all think you completely insane.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news GeekAreMyPeeps: Snopes.com

The MCP is pleased.

SewerUrchin99: Hate to be the bearer of bad news GeekAreMyPeeps: Snopes.com

FTFSA: "The picture is actually an entry submitted to a Fark.com image modification competition..."

You think that just maybe the submitter new this?

"umm Cray... Crow"
"Why thank you for the compliment but I'm hardly a Cray... more of a PC. ah heh heh."

GeeksAreMyPeeps: That is all

You see that wheel? That's the data valve, it makes the bits flow.
The intarwebs still use that same technology to make bits flow through the tubes.
It's amazing how even decades later, some tech still hasn't changed all that much.

meh, so what. (new window)