Set your wayback machine for 1979 and head over to the Modern Mechanics archive for a review of the Cray-1. $8M, 80 MFLOPS (hat tip to Chris).
Pre-leg warmer supercomputing
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The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud, partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency. According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance, with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […]