No, but it wasn't _that_ far off. On a Cray T932, we ran about 7M nodes per second.Werewolf wrote:Hmm...ok. So how fast was a Cray computer back then? Could a Cray in 1995 compete with a Core i7 today, for instance?
But the problem is, Cray Blitz was written for the cray, with about 20,000 lines of assembly language that replaced some of the time-critical Fortran code to improve the speed by a factor of 10. The T932 was a 1994-era machine. Cray Blitz Fortran source runs fine on today's hardware, but it uses a lot of array stuff that was very efficient on a vector box, but which causes a memory bottleneck on the PCs of today. In the 1995 time-frame, we could do 7M nps on the Cray, 100 nodes per second on the available PCs.