July 2023

About the HNM Heinz Nixdorf MuseumForum in Paderborn

This large tech museum in Padaborn Germany has SN2o18 Cray-2 on display. Editor note: SN2018 is currently listed as having previously worked at National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) @ Lawrence Berkeley Livermore Labratory and Internal machine at Cray Research, Inc (CRI). Not sure how it ended up in Europe unless it did some time […]

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Unmatched : 50 years of Supercomputing by David Barkai

Over here at Cray-history.net we pleased to see the release of this work by Cray Colleague David Barkai. It’s a great read and I certainly filled in a few gaps in my understanding of HPC history. David adds: “I have spent the last few years writing a book about HPC. It is now done and

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Cray-2 Diagnostic and indicator lights

If you look closely into the top of a Cray-2 we are able to make out rows of indicator lights that were used by service engineers to assess the state of a machine. In the event that a machine hung or unexpectedly halted, the indicator lights were examined to gain some idea of what was

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