西班牙计算机历史博物馆推出了一项独特的纪念项目——利用30台Mac Mini电脑组建集群，打造了1976年经典Cray-1超级计算机的1:1比例视觉复制品 1。这个耗时18个月的项目旨在庆祝Cray-1和苹果公司各自的成立50周年 1。
该集群由5台2012年型四核i7处理器Mac Mini、25台2012年型双核i5处理器Mac Mini以及2台2014年产Mac Mini组成 1。这套系统拥有64个活跃处理核心，实现了每秒1.3万亿次浮点运算的性能 1，远远超过原始Cray-1大约每秒160百万次浮点运算的峰值性能 1。复制品采用并行集群架构，而原始Cray-1则采用向量处理技术 1。该集群曾在使用全部70个处理核心时达到每秒1.5万亿次浮点运算的性能 1。
The Spanish Computer History Museum has constructed a full-scale replica of the iconic Cray-1 supercomputer from 1976 by clustering 30 Mac Mini computers together 1. The project, completed over an 18-month period, serves as a commemoration of both the Cray-1's and Apple's 50th anniversaries 1.
The system comprises five 2012-model Mac Minis equipped with quad-core Intel i7 processors, 25 units with 2012 dual-core i5 processors, and two additional machines from 2014 1. Running 64 active processor cores, the replica achieves 1.3 teraflops of performance, though it reached 1.5 teraflops when utilizing all 70 available cores 1. This computational capacity vastly exceeds the original Cray-1's peak theoretical performance of approximately 160 megaflops 1.
The architectural approaches differ fundamentally between the two systems: the original Cray-1 relied on vector processing technology, while the museum's recreation employs a parallel cluster architecture distributed across the Mac Mini network 1.
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