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A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

22 points • by pseudolus • yesterday at 12:34 AM • 7 comments • view on HN

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TrevorFSmith • today at 5:59 PM

I know it's pedantic but this is a tribute or a re-envisioning but it's not a replica.

ginko • today at 5:54 PM

>The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.

Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?

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mrlonglong • today at 8:43 AM

They could rent out all that compute to subsidy the museum running costs.

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latchkey • today at 5:43 PM

The picture with all the cables everywhere... ugh that sets off my OCD.