A gorgeous homage. The synthetic leather detailing really made the case IMO.

The case is gorgeous and brilliant. The painting on the wood is really clean, so are the cut.

Fantastic work Daryl - a truly inspirational reproduction of a classic ;)

Not exactly space saving but cool none the less

nice work but horrible design and not the best finishing. not impressed. bit-tech has already posted some awesome woodwork far mores impressive than this.

Originally Posted by enikmaster
nice work but horrible design and not the best finishing. not impressed. bit-tech has already posted some awesome woodwork far mores impressive than this.

Clearly, this case is not built to show off awesome woodwork skills, as some cases are, but instead as an inspiring concept case designed to be a memorial to the Cray 1. The cray super computer was not made of wood (or if it was, it wasn't made to look 'woodish'), so as long as the case is strong, there is no point making the case out of solid teak with hundreds of dovetail joints and other complex joints... before covering the whole thing with a material to model the cray.

Anyway, great work Daryl

Originally Posted by enikmaster
...horrible design...

Go complain to Seymour Cray if you don't like it.
Ignorance is bliss, they say...

Brilliant work, Pfaffen! ;)

Looks amazing, fantastic build quality!

Amazing build!

Love the upholstery.

Im waiting for the next gen Fluorinert cooling upgrade.

Good job.

Love the build (gotta agree with PQuiff on the upholstery). Captured the Cray perfectly.

Amazing and unique build! Mod on!

if there's no such thing as CRAY-1 and u did that completely out of ur own personal design... i'd say great job! love the leather upholstery and unique "tube" design. Could be slightly bigger tho with a bit sturdier support as it can handle as a real living room center piece! :)

BUT since its made in remembrance of CRAY-1, then... dude... awesome job. Awesome, awesome job.

I can't believe some peoples comments. This is another great project and a nice homage to the iconic CRAY-1
This dude's wood work skills shouldn't even be questioned, did you even bother checking his other works, or just look at these pictures?, check out the links to (World Map, Canary Mesa, Fibonacci, Vogel Haus, and the four Hokusai cases).

Very well done, loving the "leather" finish, that just pimps it.

I used to work on a CRAY like that. Bet your little one is a lot more powerful...now.

Very nicely done. Good work.

That's so flipping cool.

Awesome work, the painting of the "wires" was excellent, and the project turned out beautiful!!

I'm surprised at the comments by eunuchmaster, I would question what he considers to be good work.

Truly Inspiring....makes me want to built a custom case to honor one of the other 'original' computers like the TX-0 or a PDP-1 complete with tape reader.......well if I had your skills anyway. Awesome work, and a Great way to pay respect to the original supercomputer.

have you compared your scale models processing power to that of a CRAY-1?

Here is some information to compare the two:

The Jun 1979 Popular Science Magazine reported the Cray-1 Supercomputer cruises at 80 million operations per second. With overlap calculations approaching 140 MFLOPS and burst calculations at 250 MFLOPS.

Based on Intel's numbers
(http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-023143.htm) the i7 975 2.66GHz runs 42.5 GFLOPS and the i7 975 3.46GHz runs 55.36 GFLOPS.

So...

80 MFLOPS vs 42,500 MFLOPS or 55,360 MFLOPS depending on your processor.

Gizzed!

http://gizmodo.com/5602574/this-cray+1-pc-replica-has-200000-times-the-power-of-the-original-cray+1

And on Engadget! 2nd Bit-Tech mod to be featured there the last couple of weeks :D

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/honey-daryl-brach-shrunk-the-cray-1-supercomputer/

Nice build!

We have a real Cray-1 used as a couch on campus, put there by Cray research a bunch of years ago, and it's a lot more interesting design than a regular 19" rack cabinet at least =)