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Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk a Cray-1 supercomputer

Posted in August 2nd, 2010
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Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk a Cray-1 supercomputer

The original Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1, is an iconic square of computing history, so big it had the ring of padded seats around which engineers could lay and contemplate esoteric questions of life while the machine humming at the back of them answered a more finite ones. This semi-hexadecagon shape has been brought behind to life, scaled down quite the bit, by box modder as well as woodcrafter Daryl Brach. The strange 5.5 ton behemoth is right away a desktop-friendly distance, and though those seats have been now as well small for tellurian behinds they’re still leather-covered and padded, stealing the pair of DVD-ROM drives continuous to not a single but two motherboards. We’re not sure what other hardware Brach populated the thing with internally, though since that strange Cray-1 had 8MB of memory to work with we’re guessing this complicated version would have no problem computationally wiping a building with the impulse.

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