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Space Wars: 80s CRAY-2 Supercomputer vs. Modern-Day iPhone
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:51 pm
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The CRAY-2 was a behemoth even in its day (1985), at 5,500 pounds and taking up 16 square feet. The iPhone 12, on the other hand, weighs 5.78 ounces and occupies just 1.6 square inches. While the CRAY-2 was busy doing nuclear research and working on oceanographic development for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, the iPhone is probably most used for texting and scrolling through social media.
But like the smartest kid you went to school with who spent all their time gaming, it has the potential to do so much more. The CRAY-2 operated at 1.9 billion FLOPS (floating-point operations per second)—while the iPhone 12 operates at 11 trillion FLOPS.
Well, my first big computer was analog.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/space-wars-the-cray-2-supercomputer-vs-the-iphone-12
This post was edited on 8/30/24 at 5:05 pm
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Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:53 pm to Auburn1968
That's Cray Cray.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:54 pm to Auburn1968
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CRAY-2 was a behemoth even in its day (1985), at 5,500 pounds and taking up 16 square feet
That's about the size of a pallet
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The iPhone 12, on the other hand, weighs 5.78 ounces and occupies just 1.6 square inches
Has a footprint about 10x that size actually.
What is wrong with journalists?
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:56 pm to Auburn1968
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While the CRAY-2 was busy doing nuclear research and working on oceanographic development
My uncle used one of these for exactly this purpose and would take us to his office to see it whenever we visited.
This post was edited on 8/30/24 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:56 pm to No Colors
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The iPhone 12, on the other hand, weighs 5.78 ounces and occupies just 1.6 square inches
Has a footprint about 10x that size actually.
That would be more like an Apple watch size.
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while the iPhone 12 operates at 11 trillion FLOPS.
That 11 trillion FLOPS seems way off since it's not running an NVidia card with massive cudas. The phone processor running at 3 ghz should optimally give 3 billion FLOPS and the iPhone has 4 processors.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that should be 12 billion FLOPS. Still the progress is amazing.
This post was edited on 8/30/24 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:57 pm to Auburn1968
Yeah, but an iPhone was never cool like WOPR
Posted on 8/30/24 at 3:57 pm to Auburn1968
Ordering the 3 Crays and gene sequencers is what gave John Hammond away to Biosyn
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:00 pm to No Colors
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Has a footprint about 10x that size actually
Might be talking about just the main computer parts in the phone.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:04 pm to No Colors
Saw a really Cray-2 back in the 1990s at Disney World at innovations. It was very impressive.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:05 pm to Auburn1968
My TRS-80 would smoke all those fools.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:08 pm to Havoc
I was impressed that my Atari 800 could execute 1200 cycles in the vertical interval of a video.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:09 pm to Havoc
I worked for Marathon in the early 90's and we had a Cray on site that handled seismic data.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:45 pm to FreddieMac
Sat on one of these in Houston in 1984... cool af. I believe it was at Shell.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:49 pm to Auburn1968
The CRAY was a piece of modern furniture. A sofa, really.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 5:00 pm to deeprig9
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That's Cray Cray.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 5:35 pm to Auburn1968
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Though I love that I get to write about the tech industry every day, it’s touched by gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequality and I try to bring these topics to light.
Why are all "journalists" progressive liberals?
Posted on 8/30/24 at 5:38 pm to No Colors
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Has a footprint about 10x that size actually.
Could've been referring to volume. 1.6 in3 could be about right
Posted on 8/30/24 at 5:44 pm to Auburn1968
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while the iPhone 12 operates at 11 trillion FLOPS.
The iPhone 14 can do 2.0 TFLOPS on paper. The author of this article has confused FLOPS with Apple's internal benchmarking for it's "neural" operations per second.
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