Comment Re:SuperLinux? (Score 1) 152
"You just aren't getting it are you? The Cray doesn't have any significant graphics capability. That is not what they were built for. They just offloaded the datasets on to another computer which actually made the pretty pictures you love so well. The Cray crunched the numbers and another machine actually made the images from those numbers."
Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Mostly because it's the truth, but that's beside the point. From what I remember, and this was years ago I saw that information about the Last Starfighter, the Cray was used to render everything. Now, since this wasn't a documentary about a computer but rather, one about a movie (which was very cool) they didn't add that the Cray was actually used to make the actual end product. Jeez man, don't fly off the handle next time. I realize that the Cray wasn't/isn't made for it's awesome graphics presentation capabilities, I was just commenting on a documentary. Don't play that "I know more than you" game, man. It's cool and all that you know about that stuff, but keep the spirit of information sharing alive and don't be elitist about it.
Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Mostly because it's the truth, but that's beside the point. From what I remember, and this was years ago I saw that information about the Last Starfighter, the Cray was used to render everything. Now, since this wasn't a documentary about a computer but rather, one about a movie (which was very cool) they didn't add that the Cray was actually used to make the actual end product. Jeez man, don't fly off the handle next time. I realize that the Cray wasn't/isn't made for it's awesome graphics presentation capabilities, I was just commenting on a documentary. Don't play that "I know more than you" game, man. It's cool and all that you know about that stuff, but keep the spirit of information sharing alive and don't be elitist about it.
