December 2021

Florida State University replace ETA-10 with Cray YMP from 1991 by Jeff Bauer

Also seen at – http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University Jeff Bauer (Written in early 1991) As the result of an unsolicited proposal by the Florida State University (FSU) to the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), a collaborative agreement was initiated in late 1984 between the State of Florida, FSU, DOE […]

Florida State University replace ETA-10 with Cray YMP from 1991 by Jeff Bauer Read More »

Delayed delivery obsoleted a Cray XMP-EA SN1205 before delivery.

This cautionary tale of how a USD10 million Cray machine was built but never delivered due to regulatory delay. Turns out it was not super-computers but more likely to be a rogue scientist that let the nuke secrets out the flask. From Wikipedia:  “In 2004, the Pakistani metallurgist Abdul Qadeer Khan, a key figure in

Delayed delivery obsoleted a Cray XMP-EA SN1205 before delivery. Read More »

Scroll to Top