Cray SV1 Named Best Supercomputer for 2001

zoombat writes "The BBC reported that the Cray SV1 product line won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Supercomputer for 2001 by the readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine. These beasts have some pretty remarkable stats, including a 300 Mhz CPU clock, up to 192 4.8 GFLOPS CPUs or 1229 1.2 GFLOPS CPUs, and up to a terabyte of memory. And they sure know how to paint 'em real nice. Of course, we all know how "scientific" the Readers' Choice Awards are..."

Yeah, but...

[JBowz15]

What I want to know is what supercomputer wins the award for congeniality?

Re:Beowulf?

[Detritus]

Real computers aren't named after some Danish nob with a sword.

Real computers are designed in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Real computers have high-speed interleaved main memory, and lots of it. Cache is for losers who can't afford a real memory system.

Can you imagine...

[Nastard]

just one of these?

Oh yeah?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry to break it to all of you, but the Cray SV1 is just another example of the "Performance Myth." My G4, at only 450 MHz, can outperform any Cray model at PhotoShop. Allow me to demonstrate rendering this 200MB graphic image. The G4 renders it in only 20 seconds, while the Cray fails entirely!

Sorry, Cray. I'm not buying.

Gratuitous MS Bash...

[dankjones]

I'll betch one of these suckers could crash windows in a couple o' microseconds.

I have to wait almost all day for it.

Criteria used:

[Giant Hairy Spider]

• Does it sound familiar when we fill in this blank: "____ Supercomputer," with the company name?
  
• Bigness of numbers.
  
• Number of words that we don't understand. (ji... ga... flop?)
  
• Cool paint job.
  
• Number of clever supercomputer jokes accumulated around the brand. (Apple used a Cray to design their chips, Cray used an Apple to design...)
  
• How easily could we imagine the case of this computer as concealing a hostile intelligence?