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		fnord77 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] Not terribly impressive considering an average 20 year old super computer c. 2005 is still about 100x as fast as today's best consumer cpus

twoodfin 17 days ago [–]

Well, yeah, Dennard scaling ended around 20 years ago!

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