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March 5, 1976 — The Day the Supercomputer Was Born
On March 5, 1976, something extraordinary arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It weighed more than five tons , cost roughly $19 million , and looked like a piece of futuristic furniture designed by someone who understood both physics and aesthetics. It was the Cray-1, designed by legendary engineer Seymour Cray, and at the time it was the fastest computer on Earth. The machine could perform roughly 160–250 million floating-point operations per second. That number might

Rich Washburn
2 days ago5 min read


The New Arms Race Inside Every Data Center
Let’s be honest — the 10kW rack era isn’t just over. It’s ancient history.And it’s not coming back. What’s happening right now is something entirely different: an all-out power and cooling arms race inside every data center — built or unbuilt. The demand curve isn’t plateauing. It’s accelerating, steeply. And for the foreseeable future, that’s not going to change. People keep saying, “Well, quantum will change everything.” Not for this. Quantum is incredible, but it’s not bui

Rich Washburn
Nov 8, 20252 min read


Psst… You Got Some Compute?
Stuck in line while the tech bro crowd is already building the future? Tech titans like OpenAI, Google, Meta—are stockpiling GPUs like...

Rich Washburn
Feb 19, 20251 min read


The M4 Max and M4 Pro Benchmark Leaks: Apple Silicon Reaches New Heights
In a wave of fresh benchmarks for the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, we’re seeing some jaw-dropping numbers that could make even the most...

Rich Washburn
Nov 2, 20244 min read
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