Remember Cray supercomputers?
They haunted the dreams of computer scientists and mathematicians with their form in an arc (and also those of film producers who lent them occasionally superhuman intelligence).
long considered the most powerful computers in the world, Cray seemed to have disappeared from the record books.
Well, Cray is back with the Jaguars.
Today, he holds the record for floating point instructions per second.
And he does a lot: 1.75 million billion floating point operations per second. No less.
Obviously, it takes space. But I like from time to time to remind professionals who work on Game Boy (er. .. I mean on Windows servers or Unix) that NO, they do not work on a big system.
For my part, I remain attached to the look of the first Cray, so much more sexy.
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