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In your household, the children tell the dad jokes to dad.
I like telling dad jokes...he usually laughs
Your dad is named he?
Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
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Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#82This is actually quite depressing considering the amount of Raspberry pi's doing tasks like watering a plant, Reminds me of Marvin the paranoid android.
...freeing up a human to come inside and read hn
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#83The RPi, unlike the Cray-1, does not offer ample sitting space.
yeah, the pi cases have been disappointing.
Few have adequate cooling. (flirc is good, the ones with fans are just annoying)
I'd love to have a pi case that had a built-in breadboard.
...or a case with comfortable seating.
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#84Dude fix your website certificate, come on.
This site is served over plain HTTP. Not only does he not need to fix anything, you should fix your broken web browser that's "upgrading" to HTTPS when no one, especially the site owner, asked it to.
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#85I'm waiting for the follow-up from Jeff Geerling where he fits a Raspberry Pi into a Cray-1 enclosure.
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#86I'd just bought the latest and most expensive Intel x86 CPU in 2013 and built myself a new rig. My wife walked into the office, "You're not working, I can tell that, but I'm not sure what you're doing?" she said looking at the graphs on my screen. "I'm calculating to see when my PC would have been the fastest on Earth. It looks like in 1992 it would be able to out-compute the latest Dept of Defense $90m supercomputer…
The other fun thing is to find out the most recent year your phone would have made the bottom of the top 500 list.
Looks like June 2002 for Pixel 8
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#87When I see comparisons like this, the first thought I have is not the benchmarks, but rather what the most “heroic” real-world calculation of the day would have been on something like the Cray-1, and how to replicate those calculations today on something like a RPi. Weather/climate models? Rad-hydro? The fidelity would almost certainly be super low compared to modern FEA software, but it would be a fun exercise to tr…
3-D rendering? We had a super computing club in early 90s high school. I remember creating wireframe images, uploading then to a Cray XMP at Lawrence Livermore for the computation, and then downloading finished results.
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#88Years ago when my daughter was around 5 I was showing her a raspberry Pi zero I had just picked up. I told her - years ago before Daddy was your age a computer like this used to be as big as a house. Her response was - “houses were that small?”
Maybe not a house, but depending on your age a large room for sure
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One of my favorite machines from Top500 is SystemX. https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ When it was commissioned in 2004, this array of 1100x Apple PowerPC 970 systems was the 7th most powerful computer on the list. It's Linpack Performance was 12,250.00 GFlop/s.
My favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-plays...
They were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.
Re: Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
#90I've gone through the pi rabbit hole to the kubernetes/swarm level. Just skip that stuff at this point and get a mini pc. The money comes out to be the same and I promise it is way less of a hassle.