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- Hacker News
- >The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.
Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?
by ginko - I don't get it, an actual Cray-1 getting refurbed would be much more exciting.by bitfilped
- Can it run Cray-1 software? The architecture is completely different. I coudn't get that from the article. It seems like a large cluster of Macs arranged superficially to look like a Cray-1.by fortran77
- Isn't the limit of supercomputing more about the data link speed than about the actual node compute speed?by amelius
- Just awesome; now they need SI to recreate Fortran in Rust to use Sketchpad?
I always wanted to build a mini CM-2 supercomputer with the red lights.
by minimaxa - I spent the weekend vibecoding software for the Cray 1.
I installed the open source Cray Simulator on my "Le Potato" SBC, then installed UNICOS, then tasks Gemini with writing a weather forecasting program that ingests raw data from METAR weather stations and uses the simulator's vector processor to generate the forecast. It renders a nice little weather dashboard viewable in the terminal. A python http service runs outside the Cray and serves up a nice little web page with a virtual terminal that displays the dashboard.
Is it useful? No...but it's cool as hell. I plan to print up an enclosure for it along with a mini terminal with a 4" LCD to display the live dashboard. Then I'll have a nice little baby Cray to put on the shelf in my gameroom.
My little tribute to one of the first deployments of a Cray at NCAR.
by hexapus - I know it's pedantic but this is a tribute or a re-envisioning but it's not a replica.by TrevorFSmith
- How are the Mac minis so flat? Is that the actual shape or have they been gutted?by andai