Supercomputers have come a long way since 1989. #ThrowbackThursday This Cray-2 supercomputer was the world's fastest computing system from the date of its release in 1985 until its eventual replacement in 1990. The system leaned on four water-cooled vector processors to reach 1.9 GFLOPS of peak performance. In comparison, the A8 quad-core processor released in the Apple iPhone 6 is reported to be able to hit 115.2 GFLOPS. Though it's important to note that the two system were not designed to tac

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