Apropos of...

It makes me laugh that the computer under my desk that I cannot hear is more powerful than this Cray supercomputer which was a fantasy machine when I was a kid.

e/acc

Left: a 1976 Cray 1 supercomputer worth ~$40M in today's dollars, weighing nearly 5 tons and requiring a 115kW power supply.

Right: a Raspberry Pi worth $70, weighing 50g and drawing 5W of power.

The Pi is now 4.5 times faster than the Cray.

http://tinyurl.com/mt99me7n

Relevant:

https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xcedbb122

500 $DEGEN

Tradfi coder by day, hacker by night. Doesn’t know night from day. Freelance scribe. Dad cook. Dog butler.  Happy Grandpa. Draws badly.

I agree, it's so crazy that even a smartphone probably has more compute now! Cray was based about 15 minutes from where I grew up. We were always told that we had nukes pointed at us and if there was ever WW3, we would be one of the first hit!

The gpu is probably more powerful that that entire machine!