[ale] Saving electricity with Linux

[Chuck Payne]

DJ Pfuliio,

When I worked at Starbase Atlanta Comic Store, there was a guy that came in
who would give a lot of crap because I had a Macbook ( 68000K ), that I
didn't know what a computer was, because he worked on a Cray / DEC Alpha,
real computers. I was getting back into computers. I got the Macbook
because Noriko needed a laptop for college. She was studying and teaching
at Agnes Scott. In Japan, HyperText was a big thing there for teaching.

A few years later when I built my first PC, I wanted an Alpha because it
could run a lot of OS, but no way hell I could afford something like that,
the Cray sounded more like the Gibson from Hacker.

Now-a-days, I am just happy to use small board computers that more powerful
than the towers I build from years ago.

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 9:16 AM dj-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> A few years ago I looked up what my Ryzen 5600g performance was as
> compared to a Cray y-mp from the late '80s. They were about the same.
>
> Or did I get that wrong?
>
>
> On June 2, 2024 8:30:18 AM EDT, "Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale" <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> When I spoke about "Cray" it was when it was "Cray Research" the child of
>> Seymour, and "supercomputers" tended to be designed as monoliths.
>>
>> That company went Bankrupt, was sold off to Silicon Graphics which went
>> Bankrupt and was sold off to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  The new company
>> is really "Cray" in name only other than they design HPC clusters.
>>
>> md
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, 07:49 Brian Stanaland via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > "Back in the day" when supercomputers like Cray, Control Data and
>>> others ruled the market their use of electricity was legendary.   A Cray-1
>>> was rumored to produce enough hot water to heat 10 homes in Toronto,
>>> Canada.   The cost ors f a supercomputer was so high that very few agencies
>>> could afford one
>>>
>>> Cray has come a long way since then. As have supercomputers in
>>> general. Still use gobs of power but at least that gets measured and
>>> ranked now. Seven of the top ten green systems are Cray. They're not
>>> slow, either. The lowest rank on the regular top 500 is 128 (2nd on
>>> the green list) while the number 11 fastest is the 8th greenest. (And
>>> I admit that I'm a little biased since I work on them.)
>>> https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2024/06/
>>>
>>> Brian
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