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@AK-nb6hz Жыл бұрын
I really wish Gary could appreciate now just how much love and respect we have for him for his contributions to the IT industry. He seems to bring such a warmness to these formal earlier episodes before the consumer revolution took off through the 90s.
@zatozatoichi7920 Жыл бұрын
I love these though. They are so soft spoken and polite, conveying their thoughts clearly.
@Moosemanity10 ай бұрын
Yes indeed 😢
@paintpaintpaintco.60394 ай бұрын
He does, he did an interview in 2013 where he says how he managed to get all these old videos archived. It’s thanks to him that we are seeing these
@AK-nb6hz4 ай бұрын
He died in 1994. You're thinking of Stewart.
@dawsonpate7385 Жыл бұрын
For those that don't know . . . This computer had 2gb storage . . . 64 bit words is 8 bytes (250 mil of them) . . . The snapdragon in my phone hits close to 2000000 mflops (vs 250 mflops) on the GPU and around 250000 mflops on the CPU (~2 tflops GPU and ~250 gflops CPU). All packaged in a fraction of a fraction of the size of the cray
@MannyDer10 ай бұрын
"The CRAY-2 operated at 1.9 billion FLOPS (floating-point operations per second)-while the iPhone 12 operates at 11 trillion FLOPS. " -- I pulled that off of PC magazine's site. That's just crazy
@SmartK82 ай бұрын
That's Cray-Cray!
@777jones4 жыл бұрын
Back when old men were the best supercomputer users
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
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@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
Calls to mind the John von Neumann Supercomputing Facility (closed around 1990 due to loss of funding). Ms. Salowe, RU out there?
@mankind8088Ай бұрын
Boomers ran it all and controlled it all, till their PROGENY popped up, because the boomers aka IBM never thought the PC would take over
@Nine-Signs5 жыл бұрын
At one point they mention researchers at los alamos had access to 50 trillion bits of storage. That = 4.8 terabytes. Quite respectable given the day.
@scottcupp81294 жыл бұрын
Very much so. Cray had some good machinery.
@dadude49604 жыл бұрын
amazing. how many years it took consumers to get to that point. 25 years.
@theprogressiveatheist70244 жыл бұрын
According to the "bits to terabytes" conversion on Google, 50 trillion bits equals 6.25 terabytes.
@swifty19693 жыл бұрын
actually 40 trillion bits (5tb)..LOL!!! My Samsung s10 plus has 1.5tb worth of storage. What we have now was unthinkable back then the same way what we had then was unthinkable during the 50's.
@Nine-Signs3 жыл бұрын
@@comedicsketches I still say when they were figuring out names that 1000 bits should have been called a bob.
@vm24633 жыл бұрын
dont you guys feel stupid knowing that all you do with your computers that are twice the power that NASA has hoped to get by the end of 1987 is watching youtube and playing games? Think what NASA would've done if they had the computing power of your laptop 40 years ago.
@lookoutforchris5 ай бұрын
Most people don’t use their computers or devices: they’re just content consumers. Engineers, programmers, and scientists actually use the damn things. I think if they magically had the super computing power of today back in the 60s-80s we would have had so many more breakthroughs. Mostly because the Cold War was going on and the funding was massive for all kinds of science and engineering. Today to get something done you have convince a moron CEO with an MBA to give you a tenth of what you need by dangling the promise of even more money in front of them. It should be embarrassing… the gulf between what we could do and what we actually bother to do these days.
@lookoutforchris5 ай бұрын
Most people don’t use their computers or devices: they’re just content consumers. Engineers, programmers, and scientists actually use the damn things. I think if they magically had the super computing power of today back in the 60s-80s we would have had so many more breakthroughs. Mostly because the Cold War was going on and the funding was massive for all kinds of science and engineering. Today to get something done you have convince a moron CEO with an MBA to give you a tenth of what you need by dangling the promise of even more money in front of them. It should be embarrassing… the gulf between what we could do and what we actually bother to do these days.
@lookoutforchris5 ай бұрын
Most people don’t use their computers or devices: they’re just content consumers. Engineers, programmers, and scientists actually use the damn things. I think if they magically had the super computing power of today back in the 60s-80s we would have had so many more breakthroughs. Mostly because the Cold War was going on and the funding was massive for all kinds of science and engineering. Today to get something done you have convince a moron CEO with an MBA to give you a tenth of what you need by dangling the promise of even more money in front of them. It should be embarrassing… the gulf between what we could do and what we actually bother to do these days.
@rabidbigdog2 жыл бұрын
We owe a large amount of what we enjoy today in computing to Seymour Cray and Jay Miner.
@FartSniffer9K5 минут бұрын
Also China
@benbeale27273 жыл бұрын
Any other millennial devs watching this and marveling at technical accomplishments that happened right before our time? It is making me appreciate my modern hardware even more than I already do.
@bcgibson223 жыл бұрын
IT student here-I've watched many of the episodes from the 80's. It's fascinating to hear Microsoft being barely mentioned, that it's mostly about IBM with some Apple machines. Or machines which run Unix
@n1vg2 жыл бұрын
I lived through it and it still amazes me. My 4 year old smartphone is something like 70 times faster than that Cray, with at least twice the memory.
@appalling22 Жыл бұрын
not really, this just makes me realise that things back then were even shitter than i thought
@yelapa999 Жыл бұрын
@@appalling22 You lack discernment and obviously don't think very much.
@FartSniffer9K6 минут бұрын
Thank China.
@erikev3 жыл бұрын
800MHz 800 MFLOPS 2GB memory. That is a low end phone by todays standard.
@AlexanderEv3 жыл бұрын
cool
@metafis24907 жыл бұрын
Todays supercomputers are the equivalent of 16,000,000 Cray 2's
@christineayres53393 жыл бұрын
Hello from 3 years on and the US and China have computers that can do 1 Quintillion calculations per second, totally insane , the Supercomputer of 87 was like a modern i7 cpu nothing special lol
@raven4k9983 жыл бұрын
you wrong my computer is faster then that and super computers can beat 512,000,000 cray 2's
@ducksonplays41902 жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 Give me some proof.
@raven4k9982 жыл бұрын
@@ducksonplays4190 want proof run cinebench r20 on that cray computer and tell me how long it took it to complete the test? I am guessing 20 years my systems score is 22649 on the first run what does the cray get?
@raven4k9982 жыл бұрын
@@ducksonplays4190 no no no you give me some proof lol
@FubarMike5 жыл бұрын
and we still have no 12 min flights from new york to San Fransisco
@RonJohn635 жыл бұрын
We never will, because of economics. (In 5.5 hours, you can fly from SFO to Newark for *$227.* To save five hours, do you really want to pay $30,000?)
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
@@RonJohn63 thats why Concorde eventually went out of service. They were subsidized by the government and still lost money on the flights which tens of thousands of dollars.
@gerrycrisostomo65713 жыл бұрын
Yes there is but not for the civilians. The Project Aurora that started in the mid-80s was a success but it was deemed too sophisticated for civilian use even for today. It is the hypersonic spy plane that will be called SR-72 once it enters service. There will also be an advanced bomber version of that plane.
@swifty19693 жыл бұрын
not to mention superconductor cars and trains.
@RonJohn633 жыл бұрын
@ depends on the plane, and who I'm with.
@UncleFeedle Жыл бұрын
The HPE Frontier (no.1 supercomputer in 2023) has the performance of almost 1 billion Cray-2's.
@TheFu3lman Жыл бұрын
For the record, 40 trillion bits = 5 Terabytes. That's actually impressive as hell.
@jsmythib4 жыл бұрын
Today my desktop has nearly as much computing power as my state did in 1987 :)
@jsmythib3 жыл бұрын
@Vashon Tarpon Anything I need to learn, just press buttons and apply some effort. Cat videos keep me from going postal. All productive :)
@gerrycrisostomo65713 жыл бұрын
If your desktop is based on one of the latest AMD Ryzen processors, it might be way more powerful than the supercomputers in 1987. Take for example today's AMD based XBox Series X. It is just a game console but it already is capable of 12.15 Teraflops (12.15 Trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second) With today's desktop gaming computers, there are GPUs that are capable of 25 Teraflops or greater depending on the model. The supercomputer mentioned above is only capable of from 250 Megaflops (Million Floating Point Operations Per Second) with boost up to 1.7 Gigaflops (Billion Floating Point Operations Per Second). They had a plan to upgrade it to enable up to 10 Gigaflops or 10 Billion floating point operations per second. It has a memory of 250 Megabytes, while today's desktop has 8, 16, 32, Gigabytes or even greater.
@RichardHaydenuk3 жыл бұрын
@@jsmythib unsure what you mean by "going postal" ??
@jsmythib3 жыл бұрын
@@RichardHaydenuk Sorry. The term is localized to my region. Often used anecdotally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
@RichardHaydenuk3 жыл бұрын
@@jsmythib oh I see, sorry for my ignorance that was inexcusable of me. We have just entered here in Wales another full lockdown, so I will have to look for ways to stop myself from, as you say "going postal".
@RB747domme4 жыл бұрын
I love the sponsorship adverts at the end, saying that their computers come with the 1200 baud modem! Wow, a whole 0.12Kb a second.. I worked out that it would take somewhere in the region of of 2 years 9 months to download a half hour high definition video. Or around 7 years for a high-definition movie. But even in 87 that seems a bit behind the times, because my first modem in the early 80s was a 300 baud modem, and then an 800 board modem, and I was using a 1200 baud modem by 85-86. By the early 90s I had a 19k2baud, and I believe that I was one of the first people that I knew to have a 56k bis standard modem by 95. After that it just went crazy, when we had our first fibre optic installed in 99 here in the UK, which allowed us to have the earliest 'broadband' (at least, that's what they call it!) with a whopping 256k!! So in the space of just a little over 10-years, it went from 1200 baud, to broadband in its earliest form at around 256k. After that it just took off, with 512, and then one megabit, etc and so on.. right up to today, where we have 250mbit from Virgin broadband, with routers here. And just recently they've written to me saying that they're going to be rolling out their first gigabit routers in the near future. No more waiting 20 minutes for a picture to form on the screen lol.
@KrunchyTheClown784 жыл бұрын
Yeah really lol I'm spoiled today with my 45MB per second internet speed.
@askhowiknow55274 жыл бұрын
Clint Tapper Factor in error correction and you don’t get all 1200 baud!
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
Boy thats when you had to like the picture you downloaded because it would take another half hour to download another one and by then the wife would be home! Hahahah
@dzonikg3 жыл бұрын
My first modem was 2400 on amiga..there was no internet then ..it was BBS...and when i first registraded on one ..i played football in the street and mom call me that i have phone call...and it was owner off that BBS who then chat with me to see who i am
@justin35942 жыл бұрын
That was better than my first 300 baud modem. I was just happy to get on the bbs even at 300 baud.
@foxythedingo Жыл бұрын
The "don't copy that floppy" line is great
@sergiofernandez18638 жыл бұрын
They have to bring the Computer Chronicles back.
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
They are all dead, or retired except for Stuart
@sergiofernandez18638 жыл бұрын
you can do the show with new people, just keep the same format and the same style of the show. it was great. that show and The Mechanical Universe, were 2 shows that I use to love watching.
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
Requires a big budget. Stuart was flying all over the place just for 5 minute interviews.
@sergiofernandez18638 жыл бұрын
nahhh.. the more you fly, the more free flights you get, just accumulate those frequent flyer miles. plus, they can use Skype face-time or a dozen other web conferencing technology to save a trip.
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
Not going to fly as long as the Gestapo stays in airports.
@pauldavis56654 жыл бұрын
Amazing how a modern smartphone that can fit in your pocket is more powerful than a huge supercomputer that took up an entire room back then.
@dadude49604 жыл бұрын
the largest one had a 5TB drive. show me a phone with a 5TB drive.
@pauldavis56654 жыл бұрын
@@dadude4960 I am talking in terms of processing power.
@swifty19693 жыл бұрын
@@dadude4960 my galaxy s10 plus has 1.5tb
@alexwildner6369 Жыл бұрын
@@dadude4960 easy, it'll just make that phone a bit bulkier
@FartSniffer9K4 минут бұрын
Thank China
@whattheheck100010 жыл бұрын
This episode aired on my mom's birthday! And she and her parents had a Leading Edge computer in the late 1980s. March 9, 2014 12:48 am
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
so your mom is 29 now?
@whattheheck10008 жыл бұрын
No, it aired on her birthday, not on her birthdate. July 7, 2016 9:11 pm
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
Neat!
@unnamedchannel12374 жыл бұрын
I saw your post 5 years ago. I have come back now to make this post.
@silvercoulter3 жыл бұрын
Why are these comments manually timestamped?
@K9TheFirst12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these episodes. I find it fascinating seeing this sort of stuff about technology before was born.
@nix123ism3 жыл бұрын
Wow, everyone in comments pointing out that their home computers are way more powerful, great, but what do you do with them? Watch funny cat videos and play games? Really useful...
@randywatson8347 Жыл бұрын
Damn how far we went with CPU architecture and layers in such tiny scale.
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
how many layer where they back then cause intel has reduced the layers in their newer chips for better heat dissipation to get more speed out of them just goes to show how things change over the years with chip designs
@UncleKennysPlace11 ай бұрын
Wow, supercomputers could lead to practical electric cars! It took more than two decades from this show date, but it happened.
@RonJohn635 жыл бұрын
15:06 It's thirty two years later, and room temperature superconductors are still thirty years away.
@quosswimblik44894 жыл бұрын
graphene is a room temperature superconductor however it still can't do quantum processing at room temperature you can really create a fast transistor out of it that does digital logic either but in the future you might be able to do photonic computation with it.
@Finallybianca3 жыл бұрын
There was the first successful room temperature superconductors demonstrated in 2020.
@TheCbrdriver3 жыл бұрын
Got a supercomputer includig a Modem in my pocket
@wallacelang13745 ай бұрын
What was briefly mentioned in the Random Access news section of The Computer Chronicles was that some people in the computer industry thought that desktop computer systems could someday be on par with the super computers of the 1980s, well just thirty years later this prediction has practically come true for the most part.
@lourdeslisettecuello84552 жыл бұрын
Love love wang people...the best IT genius ...so happy to have had you in my life ...thanks for the memories 😍🙏
@fordxbgtfalcon Жыл бұрын
Our current smart phones are have more computing power than several Cray’s put together.
@03chrisv Жыл бұрын
Our modern day smartphones have orders of magnitude more computational power than the super computers from the 1980s. Crazy how much and fast technology advances.
@LordHorst2 жыл бұрын
11:09 So, he's basically saying "I am limited by the technology of my time".
@u0aol16 жыл бұрын
'The Incredible Speed and Power of Super Computers' - Stewart Cheifet (1987)
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
And Karl Heinz Winkler still works there! Correction: He has a LinkedIn profile in which it shows he retired from there in 2009.
@tomnudho42025 жыл бұрын
And they arrived on the moon using two toothpicks and an elastic band, who needs Cray 2!
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes4 жыл бұрын
I hope Gary didnt have to come in on a saturday to record a 1 minute section.
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he did much more for the episode and probably recorded more than one episode per session. He had a lot of flying to do and business deals to ruin lol
@oldtwinsna83473 жыл бұрын
I believe it was mentioned he had some exotic car, a lambo or ferrari or something of that nature, which he took out for the weekend drive to do the filming. So he didn't mind the trip.
@videosuperhighway76556 жыл бұрын
Lets see. 2018. We handed our manufacturing capacity to China, We have a reality TV show host as president, no concorde no twin towers, perpetual war in the desert, California filled with homeless people.
@Phenom985 жыл бұрын
Oh well... At least we have Samsung S9s and Teslas
@sbrazenor25 жыл бұрын
Escape From LA is a closer version of reality. LOL 🤣
@tsalikaki5 жыл бұрын
The twin towers were the turning point. Life was so much better in the 80-90s
@gregorymalchuk2724 жыл бұрын
@@sbrazenor2 Exactly. At this point, the USA is a third world country masquerading as a first world country.
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
@@gregorymalchuk272Whoever left the note "Banana Republic" was trying to tell the boss how to dress, not how to run the outfit.
@lancelotxavier90847 жыл бұрын
In 1987, due to the limits of the super computers at the time, aerodynamic analysis could only be done on the fruit fly.
@raven4k9983 жыл бұрын
lol yeah but today it can be done on much larger objects thanks to the much faster desktop pc's
@GaryCameron2 жыл бұрын
They did it using discrete slices in 2D
@GaryCameron2 жыл бұрын
And to think how many times more powerful your humble PC is.
@lancelotxavier90842 жыл бұрын
@@GaryCameron Cray 2 in this video had about 2GB RAM and 1.6 Gflops of processing power. it must of had massively parallel ALUs in SIMD. That is still more powerful than most laptops today. Impressive for 1987.
@Arcsecant4 жыл бұрын
My phone is more powerful than that Cray supercomputer, but I never held a ceremony with a band when I bought it. Maybe I should have.
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
The hype machines of the makers and sellers sufficed
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
The way iPhone users are you would think they had a full band playing for them when they bought it lol
@Arcsecant3 жыл бұрын
@Vashon Tarpon You don't know what I did to earn the money to buy it...
@gerrycrisostomo65713 жыл бұрын
Best comment! LOL!
@danstar4552 жыл бұрын
Cray 2 was made in Chippewa Falls Wi where Seymour Cray was born near.
@PearComputingDevices5 жыл бұрын
Isn't it wonderful to see California's San francisco before the tragic tents, poop and needle epidemic? I didn't even know my home town last fall. Sad. But, I guess I shouldn't talk about it, I might offend some delicate bleeding heart that doesn't seem to be offended by the actual problem.
@PearComputingDevices4 жыл бұрын
@Selim Sultan Akbar But this is my country you duffis. This is America, not some 3 world hell hole. Duh!
@PearComputingDevices4 жыл бұрын
@Selim Sultan Akbar Your a sick puppy...
@duradim1 Жыл бұрын
They (big tech owners) love the chaos. They can hide their crimes to their fellow man within the smoke screen created by it. "Who's up for another round of Covid? I already have a vaccine made for it."
@jr2904 Жыл бұрын
@@PearComputingDevices it is really sad, all of California has fallen pretty low
@AndrewTubbiolo4 жыл бұрын
Stewart's comb-over is so 1930's. Glad my generation embraced baldness. Baldies of my generation never had to endure such embarrassing hair-play.
@richbiles2308723 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@Grunchy0052 жыл бұрын
I do believe William Shatner took the first toupee to space! (Somebody had to do it.)
@duradim1 Жыл бұрын
@@Grunchy005 "Spock, that's my smock!"
@duradim1 Жыл бұрын
Comb-overs are mainly for the pleasure of the person displaying it. They could care less what anyone thinks of it.
@alexbittonagy4808 Жыл бұрын
Everyone, everything is simply RELATIVE to the technology of the particular era....
@mcswabin2079 жыл бұрын
Moores law in effect. 256MB of RAM in a 1987 super computer. My Android Wear watch has 512MB
@mcswabin2078 жыл бұрын
My watch isn't exactly Skynet. But getting Google now cards and other info and apps on the watch is useful, to me.
@MilitantAntiTheist8 жыл бұрын
+Mc Swabin memory module configurations - Computer Definition DIMM modules are designated by how the chips are addressed. For example, a 256x64 DIMM means that 256 million 64-bit words of memory are addressed for a total of 2GB. Sometimes, an "M" for "mega" follows the first number; for example, 256Mx64.
@jesuszamora69498 жыл бұрын
Imagine today's super-computers, and now much coolant they need.
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
none
@oldtwins7 жыл бұрын
super computers today aren't like how they were in this episode. they all use CPUs that are based on the same ones in your desktop or phone, just tens of thousands of them clustered together.
3 жыл бұрын
All that computational number crunching can now be done on a mobile phone.
So glad we are not pipe dreaming about ssto’s anymore.
@TheLouisXXI7 жыл бұрын
I bet my phone is more powerful then those super computers in 1987
@DataWaveTaGo4 жыл бұрын
At 2:51 it only takes 12 minutes NY to San Fran = One Continental Breakfast & one bathroom trip...maybe
@dadude49604 жыл бұрын
5TB. amazing. took me 30 years to double that. damn.
@KrunchyTheClown784 жыл бұрын
They only just now reached 20TB hard drives
@ukranaut Жыл бұрын
So, where're our hypersonic planes, huh? Looks like those supercomputers didn't really bring anything new on the table.
@QuaaludeCharlie3 жыл бұрын
I Miss Gary . Bill Killed Him :( QC
@ronsmith4325 Жыл бұрын
I love how "Spelling Correction" was such a huge feature in that Leading Edge ad... Today, you'd be put on blast if even the most basic of writing software or even web browsers didn't include some form of a spell checker. Lol.
@mercster3 жыл бұрын
Wait Mach 25? That can't be right. It's 2020 and nothing is that fast yet.
@mercster3 жыл бұрын
In June 2017, Lockheed Martin announced that the SR-72 would be in development by the early 2020s, with top speed in excess Mach 6. Yeah, Mach 25 had to have been a mistake.
@mercster3 жыл бұрын
I've sat on a Cray :-) I contracted for the Air Force for a time, they had one sitting in a hallway as a bench. I think it was a Cray-1 or Cray-2. It had padded seats all around it.
@ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432 Жыл бұрын
10 tflops is around $250 now, second hand.
@Dookie69uk Жыл бұрын
I wonder where all those Cray 2 supercomputers are today.
@AlainHubert9 жыл бұрын
Whatever happened to the National Aero Space Plane ? It got cancelled in the early 1990's before a prototype could even be made. Bummer. Imagine, San Francisco to New York in 12 minutes !! Today, 28 years later, we don't even have a supersonic passenger plane anymore, since the Concord too was retired. So people still waste precious excruciatingly long hours riding in slow standard planes still to this day. Talk about progress... Fortunately, at least computers are a lot faster and more powerful than even supercomputers from 28 years ago.
@TrebleMidBass9 жыл бұрын
AlainHubert It didnt.. it has a new name and its part of black military project, call the "Aurora,,
@AlainHubert8 жыл бұрын
+jednoucelovy There is one big problem with Elon Musk's Hyperloop concept: it can't go anywhere. Certainly not over oceans, like planes do.
@dubsy10267 жыл бұрын
jednoucelovy the hyperloop, what a joke! That hunk of junk won't be going mainstream anytime soon
@Blatstein Жыл бұрын
@@Petr75661 Reading this comment 7 years later 😂
@videosuperhighway76556 жыл бұрын
So where is our Mach 25 super national orient express airplane that gets use coast to coast in 25 minutes that his cray 2 and the windtunnel was working on back in 1987. We dont even have supersonic air travel, So we are actually behind 1987 when it comes to modern air travel speeds. I bet we take longer due to the 10 levels of TSA checks.
@unnamedchannel12374 жыл бұрын
Well there was the concord but we know how they turned out
@oldtwinsna83474 жыл бұрын
Because it's not economically feasible. Majority of travelers want to get to a destination as cheaply as possible. Those who are rich enough buy or lease their own airplane so they have a schedule revolve around them, including using small general aviation airports instead of large commercial ones.
@swifty19693 жыл бұрын
12 minutes
@livesimplyandhumbly7 жыл бұрын
I feel I am wasting my PC which was custom built to do over 20 billion calculations per second and can be expanded to do over 40 billion calculations per second. They did all that with just 10 billion calculations per second.
@Phenom985 жыл бұрын
Wait what? This thing does 10billion per second?! Didn't watch the whole video but holy shit. That's a lot for 87. How do you even use all of that at the time?
@Sarah-dn6sr3 жыл бұрын
The 10 billion would be id they had 2 which they got later I think
@avihooves18017 жыл бұрын
7:42 I think NASA found alien life
@haizahmedhaiz53873 жыл бұрын
What will happen to the comb-over in a wind tunnel?
@JarOfRats4 жыл бұрын
...and today, a typical home computer used for games has 8-12 processors running at 4 thousand-million operations per second.
@DoctorWhom Жыл бұрын
If the pulses at the beginning don't wake you up, you're no longer alive.
@mikeall70125 жыл бұрын
@19:02: I didn't realize Billybob Thorton was a computer scientist!
@DaRealKing3033 жыл бұрын
Doesnt look anything like him...
@AgnostosGnostos4 жыл бұрын
Many times the price of the CPU is the fraction of the total price of a home computer. That can be avoided with super computers. Supercomputers don't have one CPU but a very large number of CPUs and each of them doesn't need its own monitor or hard disk, RAM, keyboard etc. A burden for the speed of a CPU is its heat. Most CPUs of home computers are air cooled because this is very safe, cheap and convenient. The supercomputers have more advanced ways of cooling like water cooling, liquid nitrogen cooling or in the case of quantum computers liquid helium. Super computers contrary to home computers do very specific tasks. The faster a computer is, the more restricted and specific tasks it does. Home computers are Jacks of all trades.
@geraldh.80473 жыл бұрын
Your comment shows you really have no clue about supercomputers 😀
@AlexSage11 ай бұрын
It's like a different planet..
@allentoyokawa9068 Жыл бұрын
Japan now has the fastest super computer
@rustynail68193 жыл бұрын
2020 here, you're Samsung phone can do more than any super computer in the 80's up to the late 90's.
@raven4k9983 жыл бұрын
careful now the government hears that they might steal your smart phone dude
@Sinn0100 Жыл бұрын
Check this out....this computer can produce 1.7 billion calculations per second when pushed. Today one can go out and buy an Xbox Series X for 500 bucks that produces 3.8 billion calculations per second...per core. That is absolutely ludicrous.
@yaosio9 жыл бұрын
You can do fluid simulations on your home computer in a web browser! haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/
@GeekBoy038 жыл бұрын
40 trillion bits of storage translates to 5TB
@davidmaiolo7 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where the exact Ames Research building Stewart is standing in front of at the very beginning of the video, or if it still exists?
@miles23784 жыл бұрын
The windtunnel might have been demolished.
@piggypiggypig17465 жыл бұрын
11:27 IT'S SHRINKING! IT'S SHRINKING!
@swifty19693 жыл бұрын
"My God....it's full of stars"
@JoeyLamontagne6 жыл бұрын
Then: Wow! We went up 4 MHz! Now: wow.. we FINALLY got to 4 GHz?
@arnaudmeert15275 жыл бұрын
Well strictly speaking the record was 8GHz with a Pentium 4 chip about.. 10 - 15 years ago. We haven't had a processor with stock speeds above 5 Ghz. The first processor to come out with 5GHZ stock is the i7-8086K but it will only be released by end of this year.
@Phenom985 жыл бұрын
Yes, but the GHz war ended a long time ago in the mid 2000s. That of course doesnt mean computers aren't getting faster.
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
These days, it's all about multiple processor cores. The quest for more gigahertz ended when someone realized that the heat densities were on a par with lesser stars.
@KrunchyTheClown784 жыл бұрын
For a long time it was all about clock speed, then it became about efficiency with a lower clock speed, now it's about both, plus core count.
@behrens974 жыл бұрын
Computer Chronicles is awesome. However, not that it's the shows fault but 33 years later and there is still nothing close to a 15,000 knot Orient Express supersonic super plane. I think NASA duped us on that one and what a waste of tax payers money, jeez. It was laughable watching this. Taking a look back and watching things like this is a huge eye opener.
@ed75902 жыл бұрын
I'm an aerospace engineer, it's not oncommon to propose a highly PR favourable project to get funding for peripheral technologies. In this case they probably used the PR momentum to get funding for these Cray supercomputers and R&D for the CFD software.
@Grunchy0052 жыл бұрын
Mach 20 is pretty much re-entry velocity, that necessitates a heat shield. I remember there was a lot of speculation in the 1980s about sub-orbital hops to travel quickly around the Earth. It's conceivable, but re-entry heat shields are always the limiting factor. (It's not that unreasonable an idea, it takes about 30,000 gallons of kerosene for SpaceX to reach orbit vs about 50,000 gallons to fill up a jumbo jet. The difference is that the rocket can move a few people whereas the jumbo jet transports hundreds.)
@firstlast91983 жыл бұрын
Back in the old days we used thousands of Asians equipped with abacuses to simulate fluid dynamics. They are sadly out of a job now.
@DataWaveTaGo4 жыл бұрын
At 4:40 The Cray 2 - while this was filmed Seymour Cray was digging his tunnel...
@bobbytheitguy42893 жыл бұрын
An iPhone 4 has more power processing power than a Cray 2
@ijacobs333 Жыл бұрын
impressive for its time, but im sure today there is an iphone app for this
@pussiestroker4 жыл бұрын
5TB storage back in 87.
@remino2 жыл бұрын
2:14 Okay, so where’s that plane at?
@jo12t10 ай бұрын
WELL ITS 2023 SOOOOOO…. WHERES OUR 12 MIN CA TO NY FLIGHTS (;
@bb1televator4 жыл бұрын
I watched this on a tablet that probably destroys that super computer
@Zarnubius3 жыл бұрын
33 years from now, some kid is going to trip onto this comment section on accident through the archives and laugh because he has a 900 petaflop MMI with a 40 exabyte wetdrive that destroys our 2020 Fugaku supercomputer.
@bb1televator3 жыл бұрын
@@Zarnubius lmao yep
@paulfrancis88362 жыл бұрын
why not the speed of a super computer in a tooth filling ?
@user-ir2sy9ut1e4 жыл бұрын
我們現在已經在用這種超級電腦等級的顯卡在打遊戲了
@HikikomoriDev6 жыл бұрын
11:35... That doesn't look too correct.
@GraemeBT2 жыл бұрын
My ipad can do this. Amazing
@Perplexer1 Жыл бұрын
So Cray-2 had about 2 GB of RAM 😀
@patrikfloding7985 Жыл бұрын
I guess a Raspberry Pi easily beats that Cray.
@danielcubillos13253 жыл бұрын
10 Ghz "super computer" a today's Quad Core running at 2.4 Ghz for a mere 50 dollars could match that beast... well still impresive for the time.
@looneyburgmusic2 жыл бұрын
Not quite... It's not just how fast the processors were/are that matters, but also HOW that speed is used, and the massive vector processing capabilities of super computers such as the famous Cray line would still be impressive today, compared to any modern computer.
@dawsonpate7385 Жыл бұрын
@@looneyburgmusic well that's where the 250 million floating point operations per second metric comes in. Today's smartphones can easily outperform on raw power, but true it's not the power that matters . . . It's the software that drives it. But yes a smartphone in terms of raw performance would drive this to the ground. If the phone were programmed bare metal to run this software it would very easily overtake this supercomputer, but for now it's juggling a taxing os and handling tons of other processes outside of the one on the screen
@soviet99223 жыл бұрын
Remember paul shimler in an older episode saying that the mac was a toy and will fad away after a few months. and now he is showing off mac software xD
@vurpo7080 Жыл бұрын
No, he said that the Mac is a good machine but he does not believe it will see success in the business/office market. Which I guess he was correct on
@kevinhoward95936 жыл бұрын
Their typical Super Computer is 250,000 times less powerful then my standard PC.
@Alda19813 жыл бұрын
Imagine what they got for a standard super computer today
@BlownMacTruck3 жыл бұрын
Why do people constantly post these types of comments as if they’re the only ones who’ve ever thought of it or amazed that technology from 30+ years ago was slower?
@pulsar01z3 жыл бұрын
No. 10 billion flops is 10 gflops, which is 0.01 tflops. More like 1000 times if you have at least a 8 TFlops RTX and 1 Tflops top end Ryzen 9 (which is basically a high end PC by 2021 standards). a 386 had 4m flops... so 0.004 gflops. (a 1987 supercomputer was 2500 times faster than a 386)... Aurora will have 1 exaflops... which is 100000x faster than a 2021 high end gaming PC... and probably a million times faster than your average joe's laptop. What does all this mean ? 2020s supercomputers are 40 times faster than 1980s supercomputers relative to commercial pcs of their time.
@Dan-gy3cu3 жыл бұрын
Some of the guys interviewed here probably retired 30+ years ago.
@StaelTek3 жыл бұрын
30+ years ago is 1991 or further back. So that means they were retiring right after airing the episode.
@KrunchyTheClown784 жыл бұрын
My 1st gen Ryzen 7 CPU is rated at 1.7 teraFLOPs and graphics card at nearly 10 teraFLOPs and neither parts are top of the line either. Amazing progress we have made.
@dzonikg3 жыл бұрын
Computers made people more dumb
@AndrewTubbiolo4 жыл бұрын
Ha! @11:35, that galaxy collision simulation became a screen saver for Linux boxes within 10 years of the airing of this episode.
@gondeazshadow3494 жыл бұрын
watching this while AMD launch 64 core cpu. lol
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
Watching this on a phone that is more powerful than anything they had in this episode
@JaredConnell3 жыл бұрын
@Vashon Tarpon I was pointing out how far technology has come not the fact that my personal cell phone has helped humanity by helping me watch KZfaq videos and correspond with idiots on the internet lol
@jareknowak8712 Жыл бұрын
..yes, but will it run Crysis?
@chukchee3 жыл бұрын
Where was the corruption?
@Tech-NO-City4 жыл бұрын
Wait whats a AT super board? Make a AT computer into a supercomputer why cant I find one of these?
@Wok_Agenda3 жыл бұрын
5:29 Isn't this man the SEO of ENCOM?
@squaretrianglez5 жыл бұрын
My pc does what the supercomputer can do but I use it for nothing special so whats the point
@miles23784 жыл бұрын
Did they get the power of a cray 1 by 1990 in a PC?
@oldtwinsna83473 жыл бұрын
No, definitely not. In 1990 the fastest x86 was the 486dx-33 which did a little under 2Mflops with its built in FPU and about 25 MIPS integer performance. With 3D graphic cards still many years away, video performance was limited to frame buffers only. The original Cray 1 could do 160 Mflops, which would have smoked anything the PC could do at then. In fact, it took until about 1995 when the Pentium Pro 200MHz was released that it could match the floating speed of the original Cray. From there on , speeds really got fast and eclipsed subsequent supercomputers just from the special vectorized functions within the FPU and MMX extensions (ironically, the same vectorized ability the Cray touted). And once 3d graphic cards came out, supercomputers of years prior became a distant memory of the past.