From Cray Chips “TO THE LAND OF THE TROLLS” 1986/12/11 For various reasons the route a system takes to reach its destination may be as individual as the computer’s configuration. Hank Rosenbaum proved this on following Serial 411 to Norway. The path led by truck from Chippewa Falls to Minneapolis; by plane to Chicago and […]
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Dan Goldsmith has collected these Cray Research systems and kindly shared the photos in Facebook Cray Supercomputer Fans Group. Cray T932, 32 processor, gold livery with both HEUs (belonged to UK GCHQ) Cray T3D in tomato Red livery, 512 CPU with HEU (SN:6001, the very first T3D, Aka Typhoon), originally Cray factory dev system, then
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It’s not often that the worlds of fashion and glamour intersect with the hard industrial process of creating a supercomputer. We are used to seeing how supercomputers have changed the world of engineering and technology but discovering this story during research into the 250 issues of Cray Chips was an unexpected angle. From this issue
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After hearing a rumour that a Cray-2 went to Brazil I had a dig into the Archives – then was reminded that co-conspirator Alistair had spent some time in Brazil and had some inside knowledge. Turns out no Cray-2 but a couple of later systems did service in Brazil. In Cray Chips from January
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