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“results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures” It would be interesting to run this software today… proba
by Tagbert 5y ago
“results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures”
It would be interesting to run this software today… probably would run on a phone, now.
- abecedarius 5y agoThe CM-5 it ran on probably could do a few Gflops peak.
- shagie 5y agohttps://www.osti.gov/biblio/46248-gflops-molecular-dynamics-connection-machine https://www.osti.gov/biblio/46248-gflops-molecular-dynamics-... > Typical production runs show sustained performance (including communication) in the range of 47--50 GFlops on a 1024 node CM-5 with vector units (VUs). --- I did a comparison of a Raspberry Pi to a Cray-1. It was... very impressive for how far it has come.
- bemmu 5y agoThat comparison sounds like it’d be a hit HN post.
- shagie 5y agoCray-1 RPI Factor Price $33M (2020 dollars) $75 (8GB) 440,000x Weight 5.5 tons 45 grams 74,510x Power 115 kW (@208 V 400Hz) 5.1 w 23,000x Memory 8.39 MB 8 GB 0.001046 (1/953x) Performance 160 MFLOPS 9.69 GFLOPS 0.01651 (1/60.56x) Not too much to it. Just a couple numbers.
- abecedarius 5y agoGot me to check the Sims paper. "With this approach, an evolution with population size 300, run for 100 generations, might take around three hours to complete on a 32 processor CM-5." I guess that's 32 nodes in the terms of your quote?