A Spanish museum has built a 1:1 visual replica of the iconic Cray-1 supercomputer using 30 2012-era Mac Minis, achieving up to 1.5 teraflops of performance. The project serves as a 50th-anniversary tribute, showcasing the dramatic shift from vector processing to parallel clusters and demonstrating how consumer hardware now vastly outperforms the original 160-megaflop machine.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Oct 10, 2026 at 05:51 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10