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amirouche 🌱

@nytpu

I understand why my father was doing research with FORTRAN:

> Natively parallel
FORTRAN is a natively parallel programming language with intuitive array-like syntax to communicate data between CPUs. You can run almost the same code on a single CPU, on a shared-memory multicore system, [...]

/me mouth open, eyes blinking

22 Aug 2022 at 17:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.hyper.dev
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nytpu ‮

@amirouche Yep, how else are you supposed to number crunch with your Cray-1?

22 Aug 2022 at 18:41 | Open on tilde.zone
amirouche 🌱

@nytpu

I guess it was a cray-1, I did not ask.

ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

He was researching ways to automate making single-threaded source code execute on multiple threads / multiple cores.

22 Aug 2022 at 18:59 | Open on social.hyper.dev
nytpu ‮

@amirouche Eh, unless he worked for the (US) government it probably wasn't a Cray-1. AFAIK there was a ton of research into parallel computing at that time because of the success of the Cray supercomputers and just because it's easier to put a bunch of CPUs together than it is to make an individual CPU equivalently powerful

22 Aug 2022 at 19:16 | Open on tilde.zone
‮Andrew Cassidy

@amirouche @nytpu I love the cray 1 for the sheer audacity to make a supercomputer that doubles as a sofa

22 Aug 2022 at 19:33 | Open on cybre.space
Robo-Bunny Jane

@cinebox @amirouche @nytpu And if you spell it out or sound it out, it's like a crayon. Cray One. Someone at Cray was having fun.

22 Aug 2022 at 20:52 | Open on plush.city
Vertigo #$FF

@amirouche @nytpu Fun fact: BASIC was strongly inspired by Fortran, and the original dialects even directly supported vector and matrix math operations.

23 Aug 2022 at 4:34 | Open on hackers.town
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