Cray computer sofa

This picture from Supertietokone, joka toimi myös sohvana article shows the classic Cray supercomputer from the 1970s and 1980s, which was specially designed – as Cray computers have always been.

It does not a traditional computer, but as a strange seat. And you can really sit on one of those if you get access to a one. I have sit on one one Cray supercomputer in Finland.

The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. Announced in 1975 and it represented the pinnacle of its time. The Cray-1 was the first supercomputer to successfully implement the vector processor design. “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 clock frequency was first 80 MHz.

The 160 MFLOPS Cray-1 was succeeded in 1982 by the 800 MFLOPS Cray X-MP, the first Cray multi-processing computer. Finland got it’s Cray XM-P supercomputer in early 1990′s.

Comparing the 1970’s Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi single-board computer range #RaspberryPi @hacksterio
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/comparing-the-1970s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-raspberrypi-hacksterio/

“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,” Longbottom writes of the device, designed as the flagship product of Seymour Cray’s high-performance computing company. “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 Cray 1.”