Museum strings together 30 old Mac minis for replica of most successful supercomputer, builds something more powerful…
The Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain has constructed a replica of the 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer using 30 older Mac Minis. This new build, featuring 70 cores and achieving 1.5 teraflops, is technically more powerful than the original machine. The museum plans to expand the project with more Mac Minis in hopes of ranking on the Top500 supercomputer list.
- Entities
- Platform: Mac Mini
- Company: Museo de Historia de la Computación
- Game: Cray-1
- Topic: Hardware
- Company: Apple
- Platform: PC
- Topic: Supercomputer
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