I know it's pedantic but this is a tribute or a re-envisioning but it's not a replica.

Can it run Cray-1 software? The architecture is completely different. I coudn't get that from the article. It seems like a large cluster of Macs arranged superficially to look like a Cray-1.

Isn't the limit of supercomputing more about the data link speed than about the actual node compute speed?

I don't get it, an actual Cray-1 getting refurbed would be much more exciting.

>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?

They could rent out all that compute to subsidy the museum running costs.

imagine showing even the first iphone to a Cray engineer in 1976

they'd lose their minds lol

(Cray-1 was 160 megaflops, smartphones are teraflops)

The picture with all the cables everywhere... ugh that sets off my OCD.