Compare this to modern system: we could fully simulate this kind of slow computer in real time, I would guess, with all the wheels, clockwork and mechanics as well as logic circuits with full electricity. Deciding the simulation level would be a bit challenging - is this an atomic, an electron or more common sense simulation -; still I think the simulation would work as well as this kind of document.
Absolutely not on the electrical level. ISA emulation, probably, maybe, though these Crays are not IEEE machines so you have to actually fully emulate the floating point operations, instead of punting them to the FPU. That may make getting hundreds of MFLOPs on difficult.
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Compare this to modern system: we could fully simulate this kind of slow computer in real time, I would guess, with all the wheels, clockwork and mechanics as well as logic circuits with full electricity. Deciding the simulation level would be a bit challenging - is this an atomic, an electron or more common sense simulation -; still I think the simulation would work as well as this kind of document.
Absolutely not on the electrical level. ISA emulation, probably, maybe, though these Crays are not IEEE machines so you have to actually fully emulate the floating point operations, instead of punting them to the FPU. That may make getting hundreds of MFLOPs on difficult.