Get ready for an electrifying ride through the history and evolution of supercomputers! From the groundbreaking Cray-1 to today’s mind-blowing El Capitan, we cover it all—with tangents about Interstellar, floating-point math, and why your iPhone is basically a mini-supercomputer. Join Ned and Chris as they unleash chaos on computing history! 🤖💻✨
What’s Inside: 📚 Seymour Cray: The genius who made supercomputers... and left his own companies 🔥 From mega-flops to exa-flops: Explaining performance in layman’s terms 🌍 Supercomputers solving global warming (well, trying...)
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Links: - TOP 500 Linear Graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#/media/File:Supercomputers-history.svg - FLOPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point_operations_per_second - TOP 500 64th edition: https://top500.org/lists/top500/2024/11/highs/ - Cray History Timeline: https://cray-history.net/2021/07/19/cray-timeline-documents/ - Cray Background: https://www.invent.org/inductees/seymour-cray - Cray-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 - Sneakers scene: https://youtu.be/coDtzN6bXAM?si=JvAwJb416pxRuANq&t=43
Chapters: 00:00 Welcome, Alleged Humans 01:28 Interstellar: Did We Learn Anything? 04:15 What Makes a Supercomputer "Super"? 10:12 Seymour Cray: A Singular Visionary 23:08 The Cray-1: Breaking Barriers in 1975 36:40 From Supercomputers to HPC Clusters 48:55 Modern Era: GPUs, Exa-Flops, and El Capitan 01:20:00 Fun Facts: Your iPhone = A Supercomputer in 2010?! 01:40:00 Wrapping It Up: Sneakers and PlayStation Supercomputers
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