Wow. I knew it was better and better all the time (and cheaper too, I can get a really computer for well below $2,000), but didn't know that about the Cray-1.
Fascinating. Thanks, Marnie aka Doe :-) In a message dated 9/5/2013 9:25:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jo...@panix.com writes: Since that time, though, the price of each successive system has come down, while the amount of power has continued to climb. I'm not sure of the exact ratio, but just a single-threaded application on my notebook PC (a quad-core I7 system roughly comparable to a MacBook pro) delivers an order of magnitude more computation than a Cray-1 supercomputer. An application such as PhotoShop that can use all the power of the PC is better than two orders of magnitude faster than the Cray, while the amount of memory and storage has grown even faster than that! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
