Passed the smoke test…
Supah Computa Chapter 0 Friday, Apr 10 2009
HPC 6:21 pm
Supacomputa Thursday, Apr 9 2009
Inspired by BenHeck’s C64 laptop (and running across several HERO-1 auctions on Ebay) I have a renewed interest in resurrecting a Heathkit H89 dubbed “SupaComputa” and loaned to me by my friend Andy.
This is the best picture of this computer, ever:
The Dream and the Nightmare Thursday, Nov 20 2008
HPC cluster, cray, grid, HPC, supercomputer, windows 8:14 am
This morning I was flipping through my Google Reader and saw a story about SGI building a 10,000 core cluster in a single rack-mount cabinet. As it turns out, it’s a concept but a cool one none the less.
This got me thinking about CRAY because at one point they were the same company, so I hit the CRAY site to see if they were still affiliated.
On the homepage I noticed this:
Finally, a CRAY I could afford…but it runs WINDOWS?
I’m not even sure where to begin.


