Preferred Model for Quick Number Crunching

[johnb]

(02-06-2024 08:33 AM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  For me, "number crunching" always had the meaning of "the large-scale processing of numerical data". This is the definition in the Collins English Dictionary that my wife, who teaches English at school, uses for work. Therefore my choice for "Quick Number Crunching" would be the HP Frontier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)) :-)
Unfortunately none of them have turned up on eBay yet.

Today I learned:

Cray, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Seymour Cray was the chief designer of the 6xxx and Cyber series of supercomputers at Control Data, before he left to start Cray Corp. The thing I first learned to program on was Ga. Tech's Cyber 74 mainframe (in Fortran-IV !!) when I was just shy of 13 years old. So the Frontier can trace its lineage straight back to my first computer.

They say that baby ducklings bond to the first thing they see upon hatching from the egg, and from then on, that's their "Mother."

I wonder if it works the same way for Programmers?