Piggynap's Blog | Zoe Piper » supercomputer http://www.piggynap.com Zoe Piper, The Internet And Everything Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:21:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cray Supercomputer – Computing In The 80s http://www.piggynap.com/awesome/cray-supercomputer-computing-in-the-80s/ http://www.piggynap.com/awesome/cray-supercomputer-computing-in-the-80s/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:01:46 +0000 admin http://www.piggynap.com/?p=562 Check out these pictures of an old-school supercomputer – this is the Cray X-MP 48, installed in the Chilton Computing Lab in 1986. This behemoth had 64 Mb of RAM and came with a free sofa.

cray x-mp 48

The snazzy seating area provided somewhere to sit, relax, chat with friends and compute things…

the first fully-integrated sofaputer

Is it me or does it feel like the Cray is watching you?

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