Contact Us – To contribute updates, corrections and stories

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We would be very grateful If you have missing information or contributions / suggestions / stories or pictures for the site.

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Please Post an update on this page or email to webmaster@cray-history.net – Add XMP to Email subject line to avoid the spam traps.

Some Background

The idea and motivation behind Cray-History.net is to provide a curated collection of information about the historic Cray branded supercomputers to encourage study and interest in these groundbreaking machines. We also work with some museums that have Cray systems in retirement to improve the visitor understanding and try to bring the machines to life virtually as booting the historic systems is mostly impractical. I know very well that digital information can both last forever and be lost in a millisecond so sharing it around in an organised way would be best for its longevity. With about 50 years of history there is a lot of materials to organise and plenty to go round.

I, Clive England, was employed at Cray Research UK between ’91 – ’98 as a system support Analyst. During those interesting times I was Analyst In Charge at a couple of sites and occasional out-of-hours UK on-call software support. I also did installations ( lots of Els and J90s, the Moscow YMP-E ) as well as helping out on the UKMet install of the T3E.  I was only a small chip in the big machine but had a great time and learnt lots of technology and important customer service skills.
Originally I wrote the Cray Research USENET FAQ ( remember those ? ). Since 2021 have built out the https://Cray-history.net website and built a bit of a Facebook community. With a couple of colleagues we have done films shows, technical articles, meet-ups and virtual tours. See YouTube @Cray-history and Facebook “Cray Supercomputer fans”. Partner on the project is colleague Alistair who helps out with the WordPress wrangling and lots of other technical tasks. Hosting costs are about £20 a month so feel free to show your appreciation by dropping a few coins in the pot using the PayPal donate button on the front page.

Acknowledgments

This site contains the information, photos compiled from many sources and sites. Contributions and articles are included from ex-colleagues and folks on the net for which we are very grateful.  Please Contact us if you would like specific acknowledgement here.
Thank you to Jean and John for compiling the Cray-1 and Cray-2 locations data for this table.
Thank you to CMOA and Reinhard for contributing many of the graphics used through the site and for hosting an excellent Cray machine collection.
Cray-3 Images Copyright Stephen O. Gombosi. All rights reserved, used with permission.
Thanks to Gene and Jimbo for the initial Cray Channels content data and scans.
Thanks to Jean for the excellent logo and other graphics on the site.

Thanks to 1000bit.it and CBI for some digital assets.

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