Seymour Cray, peeking out from behind a Cray-1 supercomputer. Credit: Michael Hicks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like the CDC 6600, the Cray-1 relied on an unusual physical geometry.

[Chris Fenton] spent a year and a half constructing a 1/10th scale Cray-1 reproduction. The famous supercomputer was meticulously modelled in a field programmable gate array for a “nearly ...