Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Super Computers (1984)" video.

  1. 7:27 If you watch the SF film The Last Starfighter which came out this same year, its CG is just streets ahead of anything from around the same time. These were rendered on a Cray X-MP super. The cost of the computing time was a third of the entire movie budget, and the result took up a similar portion of the movie running time.
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  2. 17:54 What seems to have happened is that FORTRAN has evolved to include features to take advantage of vector units and highly-parallel processing.
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  3. 20:43 Not long after this, I think it was, one major US university was about to choose to buy a Fujitsu super, until Government pressure made them change their minds and go back to a good old all-American Cray instead.
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  4. Some supers today use programmable GPUs, too. How high do you think your gaming rig would score on a list of the world's top supers https://www.top500.org/ ? Wouldn’t make it anywhere near the list...
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  5. 15:28 You’re not going to reach 3K with liquid N₂, matey.
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