#cm-5

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Classic Plastic

Ibanez - Soundtank CM-5 ClassicMetal Distortion

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green (by fabien hoyois)

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This is the CM-5/1024 'Super Computer'.

You are most likely to recall these LED adorned towers from their brief cameo in the original Jurassic Park film. Each glowing red behemoth is classed as one 'node', these each contained 32MB internal RAM and their own core processor. The CM-5 itself was made up of 1,024 of these nodes at a cost of $47,00,000 ($47,000 a node).

The theoretical peak operating performance of this computer was a supposed 128GFlops, but the most observed in benchmark tests was 59.7GFlops.

In comparison, my desktop computer may only have 16GB of RAM and its i7 2600k processor is only 4 cores, but in my last benchmark test I am running at a 119GFlops (and it only cost me a princely £650)

It has taken 20 years for me to have a computer that is 'more powerful' than the #1 Super Computer in the world (1993).

Another shocking comparison is my TI-82 calculator from 1993, this has a whopping 6MHz processor and 28KB of internal memory - which is more computational power than the computer aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

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Thinking Machines Connection Machines CM-2 & CM-5 #hpc #cm-2 #cm-5