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by _a_a_a_ 1036 days ago
Read a lot of this kind of post. Years ago I recall someone bleating for 8 cores when 1 or 2 was the norm. Now you want 256. Next generation will ask for thousands. All for nothing because you have no idea what to do with it except give the handwaviest justifications. A computer's a tool to do an actual job. You can and probably do have more computing power on your desktop than all the world's supercomputers put together from the 1970's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP

   Price US$7.9 million in 1977 (equivalent to $38.2 million in 2022)
   Weight 5.5 tons (Cray-1A)
   Power 115 kW @ 208 V 400 Hz[1]
   CPU 64-bit processor @ 80 MHz[1]
   Memory 8.39 Megabytes (up to 1 048 576 words)[1]
   Storage 303 Megabytes (DD19 Unit)[1]
   FLOPS 160 MFLOPS
In 2070 it still won't be enough for you. It never will be enough.