Dude, you're gettin' a Cray

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  1. linear

    linear Minimodder

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    linear, 29 Apr 2002
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  2. howesey

    howesey What's a Dremel?

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    Wow, I have one of those locked up upstairs!
     
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  3. moose

    moose What's a Dremel?

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    ... but will it run Counter-Strike and Jedi Outcast severs? :D
     
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  4. brutal

    brutal What's a Dremel?

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    what OS runs on a cray? unix? AIX? EBCIDIC?
     
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  5. ginguskahn

    ginguskahn What's a Dremel?

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    How long does it take to crunch a seti wu? :lol:
     
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  6. alipuk

    alipuk What's a Dremel?

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    according to the blurb at psc it runs unicos as the main os and supports FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 90 and C and C++.

    but wouldnt it be cool to have one just so that you could say i have a Cray :)
     
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  7. stewe151

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    um... am i the only one here who doesn't know what a cray is?:worried:
     
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  8. Fatboy

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    A cray is a supercomputer right?
     
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  9. eddie_dane

    eddie_dane Used to mod pc's now I mod houses

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    "Cray Inc. builds upon a rich history that extends back to 1972, when the legendary Seymour Cray, the "father of supercomputing," founded Cray Research. R&D and manufacturing were based in his hometown of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; business headquarters were in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    The first Cray-1® system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 for $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 million floating-point operations per second (160 megaflops) and an 8 megabyte (1 million word) main memory. The Cray-1's architecture reflected its designer's penchant for bridging technical hurdles with revolutionary ideas. In order to increase the speed of this system, the Cray-1 had a unique "C" shape which enabled integrated circuits to be closer together. No wire in the system was more than four feet long. To handle the intense heat generated by the computer, Cray developed an innovative refrigeration system using Freon."

    I hear their customer service is actually better than Dells too...
    :D
     
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  10. Yo-DUH_87

    Yo-DUH_87 Who you calling tiny?

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    I'd rather pay for a cray than than pay the inflated price of a del :lol:

    Anyone want a wall decoration? This supercomputer would do nicely!
     
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  11. Alaric

    Alaric code assassin

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    *cough* house decoration


    cray = teh daddy of leet cooling :D
     
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