Comment by nottorp Comment by nottorp a day ago 1 reply Copy Link View on Hacker News But the Cray had a general purpose CPU while the GPUs have specialized hardware. Not exactly apples to apples.
Copy Link monocasa a day ago Collapse Comment - The main part of the Cray was a compute offload engine that asynchronously executed job lists submitted by front end general purpose computers that ran OSes like Unix.It was actually pretty close to the model of a GPU. Reply View | 0 replies
The main part of the Cray was a compute offload engine that asynchronously executed job lists submitted by front end general purpose computers that ran OSes like Unix.
It was actually pretty close to the model of a GPU.