TechA Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis

Spain’s Museo de Historia de la Computación has unveiled a life-size visual replica of the 1976 Cray-1, powered by 30 Mac Minis mostly dating to 2012. The 50th-anniversary tribute to the Cray-1 and Apple’s founding reached 1.3 teraflops in recent tests using 64 active cores networked together.

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