>The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.
Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?
imagine showing even the first iphone to a Cray engineer
they'd lose their minds lol
(Cray-1 was 160 megaflops, smartphones are teraflops)
I know it's pedantic but this is a tribute or a re-envisioning but it's not a replica.
>The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.
Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?
I don't think so, the lowest from 2026 was still 2.66 PFlop/s, so they'd need thousands of Mac Minis.
They could rent out all that compute to subsidy the museum running costs.
I doubt distributed compute in a bunch of old i7s is worth much once you factor in the electricity cost
The RAM shortage is bad, but not that bad (yet).
The picture with all the cables everywhere... ugh that sets off my OCD.