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This is one of those ones I’ll stop and read every time it gets posted. Bit of trivia: in the novel, “Jurassic Park”, the park’s supercomputer is a Cray, but S
by gdubs 8y ago
This is one of those ones I’ll stop and read every time it gets posted.
Bit of trivia: in the novel, “Jurassic Park”, the park’s supercomputer is a Cray, but Spielberg picked a Connection Machine for the movie because he thought it looked cooler.
Also, the artist Karl Sims did some outstanding work using the Connection Machine that was mind blowing for the time, and still pretty darn cool today. The computer itself was part of the art installation:
https://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html https://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html
- f2f 8y agoThis is the fat-tree connection diagram for one of the cabinets of a CM-5. It was posted on a wall at one of the national labs in the US which had the pleasure of working with a CM-5 around the time War Games was in theatres. People still gushed about how nice that machine was to program 10-15 years later. SiCortex[1] tried to do something similar with their computers, unfortunately they failed and with them the last interesting connector architecture and the last interesting "supercomputer". even cray does linux now... http://i.imgur.com/jHtf4QB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jHtf4QB.jpg 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex
- teddyh 8y ago> in the novel, “Jurassic Park”, the park’s supercomputer is a Cray, but Spielberg picked a Connection Machine for the movie Not just a Connection Machine: “You know anybody who can network eight Connection Machines and debug two million lines of code for what I bid for this job?” — Dennis Nedry