Whereof everyone is interested,
A few things about his architecture is extraordinary special. #1 ideal properties, can never be done better for some things. #1.1 analogue, you need ground and good drain, to do work during weak force pull. #1.2 physical, independent IC's, relying on physics for syncronization. #1.2.1 allowing digital global sync between die slots, async, but local sync with global clock. #1.3 as a turing machine, everything is virtually represented with arrays of addresesses in cintinous memory. #1.3.1 You get scalar operations on your vectors with SIMD insutrctions. #1.3.2 Remotely scatter data in remote memory, that is gathered into another continous area of memory with addresses to data. On the one hand, where this gives 8x the performance at a high price, it likely caused as much awe, inspiration and anxiety in the finance sector where Cray got the funding to research, build and sell these beasts. The Cult of the Holy Cow, and The Cult of the Dead Cow are oxymorons if the contexts abd historic circumstances are to be considered. Using hex numbers, would ideally imply an understanding of the Cray architecture, and why it perhaps now can be be software defined. -- Balder Oddson
