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- ScornForSega, on 10/11/2007, -3/+106God dammit...
When I read "family uses Cray supercomputer to decorate a nursery", I was thinking along the lines of renting time on the supercomputer to determine optimal decoration placement, color, etc.
A better title might have been "family uses baby's room to store a 20 year old supercomputer" - Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+57Split the difference and fill the Cray with illegal Metallica MP3s.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+50Do these parents not want any grand kids?
- flipmeat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+42I say the kid rebels and makes it in rock and roll.
- gutistg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39He's going to grow into a computer?
- steelmaverick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35Digg > .Mac
- ElliotShoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29I wonder where they got Cray and how much it cost.
- DrBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29Because your upbringing _obviously_ determines your sexuality. Pillock.
- Narrator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25How powerful is a Cray Y-MP?
"The Y-MP could be equipped with two, four or eight vector processors, with two functional units each and a clock cycle time of 6 ns (167 MHz). Peak performance was thus 333 megaflops per processor. Main memory comprised 128, 256 or 512 MB of SRAM."
So totally tricked out with eight processors the Y-MP could give you 2.664 Giga Flops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaflops
2007, March: about $0.42 per GFLOPS in Ambric AM2045 [9]
So the computing power in the Y-MP is worth about $1.11. - Fosnez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/lost-glory/5-million-cray-y+mp-supercomputer-is-now-baby-furniture-265615.php
- 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24Man... Here I was hoping that the family had loaded genetic/statistical algorithms into a CRAY, and did some heavy crunching to arrive at the optimal configuration for a nursery - "Place a pastel blue circle (dia. 10") 75 inches above the floor, 25 inches from the corner closes to North.".
- crgnetworks, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18http://www.cray.com
Beyond the design of computers Cray led a "streamlined life". He avoided publicity and there are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work. He enjoyed skiing, wind surfing, tennis and other sports. Another favourite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he once attributed the secret to his success to elves that talked to him there. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem." - Karmalary, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19No self-respecting geek would use inches. Ever hear of the Metric System?
- Ramble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Man, I'd love to have my own Cray. No matter if my friend's PCs are slightly better than mine, I'll just start bringing the Cray to the LANs.
- yohnkrb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Speaking of Cray, check out his "personal life"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
Hint- search "elves" - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14dude, you're totally invited to our next LAN if you drag your Cray along
- mattyxo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17@c0yote and blamslamman
Maybe you should respect people with gay children. Maybe their goal was to bring up gay children - is that really so bad? Maybe our society would be a little happier if people like you weren't so intolerant of others. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17why the F was this linked to apple and not the gizmodo link in the description. buried for just that reason.
- InsomniaSlim, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Looks like .Mac hosted his images on a 20 year old Cray.
Site's down... bandwidth overload. - cojerk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12@Karmalary
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" - pensivewombat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10pay no attention to the other posters, holzp. I applaud your Simpson's reference.
- holzp, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12So the kid's full name is Edison Frink?
- AaronD12, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8No one has noticed by now, the Y-MP had the option for an SSD -- a "solid-state disc". Rather than using a hard drive for the fastest operations, you could run them off what was essentially a hardware RAM drive.
I had the great pleasure of using a Y-MP48 (the top-end model) at a "major American auto manufacturer's headquarters" in 1989, shortly after their Cray was installed. I did a "du -a | grep xxxx" (I don't remember what I searched for), but I do remember it returned the results immediately after I pressed the ENTER key.
Cray did know something: Hard disk storage is S-L-O-W. When your computers cost millions of dollars, it's no big deal to have a 64GB SSD (remember, this was 1989). - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12the fact that they hosted these images on a .mac account makes this so much better.
***** nerds. - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10nah. infinitely preferable to the pastel vomit tones and Disney licensed characters prancing around scaring the hell out of innocent babes in arms.
- dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Just change the "digg" bit in the url to "duggmirror" and hit go, or copy/paste..
http://digg.com/design/Family_Uses_Cray_Y_MP_Supercomputer_To_Decorate_A_Nursery
and the DuggMirror URL would be
http://duggmirror.com/design/Family_Uses_Cray_Y_MP_Supercomputer_To_Decorate_A_Nursery
Simple really, although pointless in this case since it didn't mirror it - TorrentFox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Hey look, it's .Mac -just working-
- bigfatdummy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I actually like it. I think its cool and its not a bad idea to encourage their child to be a geek. Geeks rule the world.
- Ibox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Audiophile story is one floor down dude
- tvh2k, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7@scornforsega: I thought the same!
- Photar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6duggmirror.com ??
- toomanyhandles, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6
dead due to bandwiths restrictions, after 39 diggs. ouch! That is service, for sure.
That said, I love my G4 'book. I _don't_ buy .Mac, though. - underrun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Huh, Edison, maybe he´ll be smart enough to fix all the broken links on daddy´s webpage (rather, the bandwidth limitation problems).
- rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7.MAC
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Ahh Apple, is there anything you dont limit to oblivion - cojerk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4This has "obnoxious parents" written all over it.
- shadyk8o, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5why waste this on kids furniture? I think adults (yes, adult geeks) would appreciate this more.
- gnufan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Does anyone know if the Y-MP's were really available in leather finish?
It was joked about at the time I was programming one, but I never saw one, and no one at Cray ever mentioned the leather finish to me.
The standing joke was it would enhance the resale value. At the time Cray charged around 20% of purchase price for annual maintenance, which meant it was worthless in about 3 years (when you could by a faster machine for the cost of the maintenance), unless you knew someone who needed a slight awkward shaped bench.
The C90's (that followed) were the most boring looking supercomputer ever. - leoCT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I hope they never turn the thing on, or the baby will never sleep.
- bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Wikipedia article states: "[H]e once attributed the secret to his success to elves that talked to him there."
Will we trust our thinking skills to spot bogus information or will we give up that right and allow "benevolent" leaders to edit Wikipedia for us? - BladeDanger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It sounds dangerous. Computer components are held together by solder. Solder contains lead. You don't want lead near your kids.
- gmillerd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The big issue with this type of computing was that it had a very wide register size. Personal computers calculate very small bits of information very quick. These larger computer compute very large chunks quick .. at the time.
They also had applications OS's that were honed to exploit this fact. While PCs are built for fast and interactive, supercomputers are made for large streaming calculations. While doing 128bit math would be many multiple operations on a 8bit computer, these computers were doing all that inline.
its very expensive to get your entire hardware and software architecture at the same bit size, but when you do you cut the number of operations down like crazy.
Remember if your computer runs twice as fast, but still has to go through a conversion bottleneck, or many of them, those are wasted computations or actually layers of them. - ColinmH, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4We're Sorry
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Page is down - eraser852, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hey, I live in Chippewa Falls, WI. Home of Seymour Cray
- rougewisp, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6More appropriately he's going to grow up to be HAL's engineer who was in the second movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/ - toomanyhandles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ebay only has Cray T-shirts.
damn.
I like it, I want one.
From someone else's post here:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaflops
2007, March: about $0.42 per GFLOPS in Ambric AM2045 [9]
So the computing power in the Y-MP is worth about $1.11.
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Ok, that's in my budget, but the shipping has to be incredible. - 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@Karmalary
Yes, I use it every day (Canada is metric). But, I recognize that the majority of the traffic on digg is American, so I try to use examples that resonate with readers. - webqaz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2We have a few of these at work! So cool some of the models look like furniture!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Poor kid, he's pretty much guaranteed to be ostracized now.
- sam991, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Makes me want to cry.
- mos6507, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The problem with running old supercomputers is power consumption. For the amount of computing you get out of them, it's hard to justify powering them on. I think that's why so few of them are still operational.
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