Nice, real nice! 🤩
"The case of the cluster is built to mimic a classic Cray1 Supercomputer"
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Pico Cray - Small scale distributed computing. - Extreme Electronics
https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/other-2/pico-cray-small-scale-distributed-computing/
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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
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@aka_pugs 🧵100🎂Seymour Cray
‘Cray-1 Introduction’ Seymour Cray, LANL (1976) video
#RoyLongbottom, who has been personally #benchmarking computer systems large and small for more than 50 years, Pits 1976's #Cray1 #Supercomputer Against the #RaspberryPi #SingleBoardComputer (#SBC) Range https://www.hackster.io/news/roy-longbottom-pits-1976-s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-152bbe2d4111
Roy Longbottom Pits 1976's #Cray-1 #Supercomputer Against the #RaspberryPi
In 1978, the Cray-1 supercomputer cost $7 million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD Card), weighs a few ounces, uses a five watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the #Cray1." https://www.hackster.io/news/roy-longbottom-pits-1976-s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-152bbe2d4111.html
How Cray-1 Supercomputer Compares to Raspberry Pi-Slashdot
"In 1978, the #Cray 1 #supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds & had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The #RaspberryPi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply & is more than 4.5 times faster than the #Cray1."
I guess there are a lot more than me who fell in #love with #Cray1 and now we can see benchmark comparing it to #raspberrypi
I have to say that the Raspberry do not have as cool case as the Cray.
Have you ever had to climb onto your computer in order to carry out repairs?
@smallsco Yeah writing your own JSON parser isn’t something you just do. Tricky stuff. I was curious if there was a good small C JSON library around, as well as a small http one.
That said before I get things in motion someone else have already risen to the occasion :)
That said, if would be very cool to document the first #Toot on each retro computer. Like a little game.
Imagine if someone could get a #Cray1 to toot :)
Cluster Your Pi Zeros In Style With 3D Printed Cray-1
From a performance standpoint we know building a homebrew Raspberry Pi cluster doesn't make a lot of sense, as even a fairly run of the mill desktop x86 machine is sure to run circles around it. That said, there's an argument to be made that rigging up a dozen little Linux boards gives you a compact and affordable playground to experiment with things like parallel computing and load balancing. Is it a perfect argument? Not really. But if you're anything like us, the whole thing starts making a lot more sense when you realize your cluster of Pi Zeros can be built to look like the iconic Cray-1 supercomputer.
This clever 3D printed enclosure comes from [Kevin McAleer], who says he was looking to learn more about deploying software using Ansible, Docker, Flask, and other modern frameworks with fancy sounding names. After somehow managing to purchase a dozen Raspberry Pi Zero 2s, he needed a way to keep them all in a tidy package. Beyond looking fantastically cool, the symmetrical design of the Cray-1 allowed him to design his miniature version in such a way that each individual wedge is made up of the same identical set of 3D printed parts.
In the video after the break, [Kevin] explains some of the variations the design went through. We appreciate his initial goal of making it so you didn't need any additional hardware to assemble the thing, but in the end you'll need to pick up some M2.5 standoffs and matching screws if you want to build one yourself. We particularly like how you can hide all the USB power cables inside the lower "cushion" area with the help of some 90-degree cables, leaving the center core open.
This isn't the first time we've seen somebody build their own tiny Cray-1. A particularly dedicated hacker built his own 1/10th scale replica of the 1970s supercomputer powered by an FPGA back in 2010, and eventually got to the point of trying to boot original software on it.
Thanks to [Xark] on the Hackaday Discord server for the tip.
#raspberrypi #cray #cray1 #miniature #picluster #raspberrypicluster
Wer schon immer mal seine eigene, kleine Cray im Regal stehen haben wollte: 3D-Drucker, Raspberry Pi, XMP Emulator, COS drauf, Spaß haben. Das Gehäuse kann man auch in fertig kaufen: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9sh6yw/working_model_of_a_cray_supercomputer_xmpymp/
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