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agumonkey on Jan 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS

Ha, I thought there were cooling modules. Anyway, back in those days your supercomputer double as a bench, take that air thin tablets.

ck2 on Jan 16, 2014 [–]

Well the power supply did need its own cooling too since it was 115,000 watts.

Here's a cutaway http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Cray_1_IM...

Think about the fact not only an iphone has more computing power but 115 kilowatts vs 5 watts.

agumonkey on Jan 17, 2014 | [–]

I know I know, and I like to think that there are millions more iPhones than Crays yet almost nothing comes out of them. jiggles

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