If you love computer history, then the Museo de Historia de La Computación in Spain is definitely worth a visit. Even more so now that it is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Apple created a unique computer. In addition to Apple This year marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which was the most powerful computer in the world in 1976. The museum decided to use the shape of the original Cray-1, but put 30 computers inside it. Mac mini. These are specifically computers Mac mini from 2012 to 2014 with i5 processors, of which there are 25, and i7 processors, of which the remaining five are. Altogether, the computers have 70 cores with a performanceonem 1,5 TeraFLOPS, which is 9375 times more powerful than the original Cray-1, which had 160 MegaFLOPS. It is also important to note that this is a very old Mac mini and if the latest were used, the result would be even more impressive.
The museum people also created a retro terminal for this set, running macOS Mojave, and you can watch thirty Mac mini connected via MPI interface trying to solve complex mathematical problems. You can also directly donate to the campaign at the museum, the proceeds of which should lead to the museum buying 70 to 80 computers Mac mini with M4 chips and plugged them into an already powerful machine, creating a computer that would become one of the 500 most powerful computers in the world.
