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Perspective
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:52 am
by ivox3
This is the Cray X-MP: 1982 it was rated at 800MFLOPs - ie., 800,000,000 floating point operations per second.
This is the Intel D945GCLF2 with a built-in dual-core Atom processor 330. You can buy it anywhere from $70-90. It'll take up a 6.75"x6.75" of space.
Atom 330 scored 6.744 billion operations per second. Eight times that of the Cray X-MP.
I'm just saying .........
ps. Oh yeah, ... it will use 8 watts of power.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:17 pm
by ludenhud
Imagine at that time, you'd walk up to that line of staff been working for that monster the passed 5 years, and hand held your 83750 times faster piece of shit right there
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:42 pm
by kami
I can't wait to do maxwell renders on my iphone V8 ...
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:59 pm
by polynurb
i had a similar kick the other day:
1996 Hitachi SR2201/1024 220.4 GFLOPS University of Tokyo, Japan
this was the world's fastest supercomputer beginning of 1996.
.....now the 4 machines i use for work are 220 GFLOPS
...what would we have done 13 years ago.. having the fastest supercomputer right under our desk??...
...yeah right calculating brute force spectral disperion...
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:01 pm
by -Adrian
I often wondered what dead person i'd revive for a day to show the present.
Global politics and human/animal rights are arguably still a mess, so many historical figures who fought for freedom might not exactly be having a ball.
I think i'd take some kind of scientist, ideally someone interested in many fields. Maybe Richard Feynman, or one of the pioneers of computing, to show him what you just did
In regards to data storage it gets even crazier, just hand an IBM engineer from 1960 an SD card
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:02 pm
by -Adrian
kami wrote:I can't wait to do maxwell renders on my iphone V8 ...
They'll remove the option to deactivate dispersion, they'll come up with stuff. Trust me...
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:28 pm
by polynurb
-Adrian wrote:
In regards to data storage it gets even crazier, just hand an IBM engineer from 1960 an SD card
...gues you mean an SD
xc card
The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, pending release in Q1 2009, dramatically improves consumers’ digital lifestyles by increasing storage capacity from 32 GB up to 2 TB and increasing SD interface read/write speeds up to 104 MB per second in 2009 with a road map to 300 MB per second.
...can't wait to get my digital lifestyle improved
Re: Perspective
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:28 pm
by Mihai
ivox3 wrote:This is the Cray X-MP: 1982 it was rated at 800MFLOPs - ie., 800,000,000 floating point operations per second.
It also made a nice lounge sofa
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:47 pm
by Frances
Yes, the upholstery was what made the Cray so special. Very swank. Apple should upholster the Mac Mini.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:24 pm
by ivox3
It also made a nice lounge sofa.
Don't forget - it also had built-in therapeutic heat.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:18 pm
by tom
I want to Cray(!)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:03 pm
by Leonardo
I would take the Cray X-MP any time.... Just imagine it in my living room as a conversation piece
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:02 am
by ivox3
And when you move ... I'm sure you'll kindly leave it for the next people.