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For reference, the 1988 Cray Super computer at "333 MegaFlops" put's it's performance somewhere in the range of last year's iPhone5 (depending on which sort of
by tpurves 13y ago
For reference, the 1988 Cray Super computer at "333 MegaFlops" put's it's performance somewhere in the range of last year's iPhone5 (depending on which sort of flop operation you are crunching). I actually think that speaks pretty highly for the Cray. In 1988, a CRAY supercomputer might have almost been enough to run iOS7. However battery life and pocketability would have been somewhat an issue. Also cost at ~10M $ 1988 dollars was pretty expensive, even though it DID come with some brightly colored casing options.
some iPhone5 MFLOP benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/5
CRAY YP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP
- astrodust 13y agoThat's 333 MFLOPS per vector processor, so configured with 8 that'd put it significantly ahead of the phone.
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- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoA CPU capable of 333 Mflops, 512MB SRAM, optional 4GB SSD storage... it was like a computer from the future in 1988.
- phamilton 13y ago512MB SRAM is pretty fast and pretty expensive by todays standards. DRAM on the other hand...
- DanBC 13y agoYou can build your own "1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1" replica (http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/ http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/) This is an earlier Cray, from mid 70s to early 80s. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1) I don't think there are any similar projects for other Cray machines?
- pmiller2 13y agoYes, but your iPhone isn't nearly as cool to sit on.