Supercomputers have come a long way since 1989

The Cray-2 supercomputer was the world's fastest computing system from the date of its release in 1985 until its eventual replacement in 1990. The system leaned on four water-cooled vector processors to reach 1.9 GFLOPS of peak performance. In comparison, the A8 quad-core processor released in the Apple iPhone 6 is reported to be able to hit 115.2 GFLOPS. Though it's important to note that the two system were not designed to tackle the same types of tasks.

[@thecianinator]

Those computers are gorgeous

[@piercecallahan6537]

And now, in 2019, compiters have changed just as much since 2012 when this was made

[@juliancumming6893]

No, they haven't. Unless your living under a rock and haven't seen the drastic changes in performance from watches and phones and laptops to over 10x the performance of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

[@daineramosquitco5816]

Even the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has 1937x the GFLOPS than this thing, leading it to over 3.6 TFLOPS!

[@hubzcaps]

Mmmmm flourinert. And novec. Classified computation rig???

[@rancidbeef582]

But racks of computes that make up today's "supercomputers" sure don't look as cool as Crays.

[@squartbotai1383]

Crazy

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Watching this on a small Mac mini M1 cpu with more performance than everything in that room.

[@noth606]

Doubtful. These things can do stuff home PC’s can’t.

[@pixelatednoose3999]

These things can make simulations

[@mikakorhonen5715]

@@noth606 You did not even check facts and just spit what first come in mind. Supercomputers in the video are over 30 years old tech and today's consumer electronics beat them hands down.

[@noth606]

@@mikakorhonen5715 not in everything, if you think otherwise you need to study computer/CPU architecture because you clearly do not understand it.

[@mikakorhonen5715]

@@noth606 There is no single thing Cray 2 can do what my 5950X/128GB RAM can't.

[@WizardOfWhoopee]

Nice set of porkchops.