01-02-2024, 02:27 AM
[Old guy rambling]
From time to time someone comments on this forum that the RPi doesn't have the horsepower to do x or y or z. True, these days we have more powerful SBCs available but I can't help but smile when I read these comments.
Those of us of a certain age remember when the new gold standard for computing power was the Cray line of supercomputers. Every research facility I ever worked in lusted for one as soon as Seymour Cray announced the Cray 1 and colleagues would schedule travel to the few that did have one to perform their massive computations.
Here's a quote I found on slashdot yesterday (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/31...spberry-pi)
There have been other posts over the years quibbling about the exact performance ratio and later Cray models got much faster but using any 20th century yard stick the RPi measures astonishingly well.
Pity we keep finding ways to make it seem inadequate.
[/rambling]
Happy New Year!
Regards,
Kent
From time to time someone comments on this forum that the RPi doesn't have the horsepower to do x or y or z. True, these days we have more powerful SBCs available but I can't help but smile when I read these comments.
Those of us of a certain age remember when the new gold standard for computing power was the Cray line of supercomputers. Every research facility I ever worked in lusted for one as soon as Seymour Cray announced the Cray 1 and colleagues would schedule travel to the few that did have one to perform their massive computations.
Here's a quote I found on slashdot yesterday (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/31...spberry-pi)
Quote:"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1."
There have been other posts over the years quibbling about the exact performance ratio and later Cray models got much faster but using any 20th century yard stick the RPi measures astonishingly well.
Pity we keep finding ways to make it seem inadequate.
[/rambling]
Happy New Year!
Regards,
Kent
