On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 08:00:04PM +0200, Balder Oddson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:28:28AM +0200, Balder Oddson wrote: > > 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. > > > > The puns where uninviting, and didn't inspire snide remarks and comments > that weren't drivel without content and context. > > Thereof interests in logic has invited investigations of tautologies as > a concept in logic, whereof one cannt speak and merely add drivel. > > Not sure if it's true entirely, but for the orginal Cray's, first an > engineer came to try and get it to work, if not, Seymour gave it a try > before shipping a replacement. Likely because he tortured the > electromechanical properties around the central part so much that it was > touchy feely. > > Anyone intelligeble around this topic likely have passing interest for > having a gray beard and being sick and tiered of "what did cray do", > "what if he set a more reasonable goal than 10x the closest competitor". >
That how that machine worked, also synonymous with supercomputing which essentially died with the company. Only relevant reason to have a Demon as a logo for UNIX is allusions to Maxwells tortured physics demon. Anyone not a pundit, familiar with this may correct me?
