23 July 2021

CASH-STARVED CRAY COMPUTER CLOSES, SEEKS CHAPTER 11 – March 27th 1995

The Following appeared as Article 9037 on HPC wire on 27th March 1995 recording the end of the Cray-3 project and Cray Computer Corporation. CASH-STARVED CRAY COMPUTER CLOSES, SEEKS CHAPTER 11 Mar. 27 NEWS FLASH by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large HPCwire ============================================================================= Why did Seymour Cray’s company, Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), descend into […]

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The Supermen by Charles J. Murray

A great book about the early days ( up to 1995 ) Link on Amazon. “The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical wizards behind the supercomputer” The Supermen Book cover Cover Blerb After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly

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“Cray at Chippewa Falls” Photo Book by Lee Friedlander

    References to the the book in Cray internal literature.   Searching in the archives found these mentions   NEWSLETTER-Gigaflop_Gazette-Volume_6_Number_11-November_27_1991 The employee gift given in January of 1987 anticipated Cray Research’s 15th anniversary and was a sample of the Lee Friedlander book Cray at Chippewa Falls from NEWSLETTER-Gigaflop_Gazette-Volume_6_Number_13-December_27_1991 The company’s fifteenth anniversary was noted by a

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