Sunday 28th September 2025 would have been Seymour Cray’ 100th Birthday. Various events were held in the UK and USA. A talk was presented in the UK at The Nation Museum of Computing and open houses were held at Chippewa Falls museum of Industry and Technology and Chippewa Area History Centre. The events were well […]
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This film show concentrated on material about supercomputers built by Cray Research. From the classic C shaped Cray-1, through generations of systems, we saw and heard about the technology, applications and people involved with the world’s most powerful computers. Featuring a recently re-discovered interview with founder Seymour Cray and animations from real life applications. This
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The series of Cray systems that went to Sweden started with Cray-1 SN9 later to be replaced by XMP SN206 and others. Unusually the system was shared between The University at Linkoping and Saab-Scania using the Multi Level Security features of Unicos. Work on Jets, cars and trucks was completed. from Auto Week in 1987
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Jeff Brooks reports on Facebook… I worked there from 1986 to 1989 during the time we had the quad and serial 2003 of the Cray-2 (and a Cyber 205 and ETA-10) which got moved into this building from Lauderdale. Bruce Loftis is in the photo looking down on the computer room. Dean Kopesky is the
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Multicoloured XMP thought to be owned by Omnibus Ltd back in the 1980’s Source : Technology Stories Your Grandfather Never Told You JOHN PENNIE WAS A CANADIAN BOY WITH A DREAM. He knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was a big, bright future in computer graphics, and he was determined to be
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April 2025 Update: Unfortunately, our computer science gallery is not on display at the moment. Our museum is undergoing a large renovation, and we already re-opened the first part with 19 new galleries in 2022. But the second half of the building will be under construction for at least 5 more years. Therefore Cray-1 has
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Toby Harness reports – I released detailed YMP and Cray-2 3D model plans on Thingiverse.com The YMP can run a full emulator, booting UNICOS (by Modular Circuits/The Cray Files). The Cray 2 doesn’t have an emulator, but does have a floodable tank option, with an air or water pump for bubbles (this option is still
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Dan Hogberg writes on FB 2025 8 January at 20:31 · Hello Friends of Cray Research. It is with heartfelt sadness and fondest remembrance that I share the passing of Michael “Mick” Dungworth, one of the truly unique leaders and members of the Cray community. Mick left us peacefully a few weeks ago, and is survived by
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Seymour Cray was a serial inventor at a large and small scale. Having a look at a couple of his patents can be quite enlightening. Browsing over at the US patent office the earliest found was “US-2741758-A Magnetic core logical circuits. From April 1956“. This patent was to reduce the power consumption and improve reliability
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Here is a list of the patents assigned to Cray Research The contents of these documents can be found using the look up site here Document/Patent number Title Inventor name Publication date Pages US-6173428-B1 Apparatus and method for testing using clocked test access port controller for level sensitive scan designs West; Jeffrey D. 09/01/2001 18
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Here is a list of the patents authored by Seymour Cray. The contents of these documents can be found using the look up site here Document/Patent number Title Inventor name Publication date Pages US-5349677-A Apparatus for calculating delay when executing vector tailgating instructions and using delay to facilitate simultaneous reading of operands from and
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A few notes about Crays at Boeing inspired by this FB post in “Cray Pioneers” Greg Woodman Posted a day ago Dec 2024 · I attended a Boeing HPC reunion lunch yesterday. Cray was a vendor to them for 30+ years. Cray 1, 1S xmp,ymp,T90,X1. They are so proud that they supported and influenced Cray
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A few product development roadmaps as they changed over time from 2000 t0 2010. Comment: Back in the early days Cray Research had multiple lines of somewhat competing vector computing products Cray-2 & XMP then later the C90 & Cray-3. At other times Cray was transitioning from one type of computing to another due to
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The VTKK Site in Finland has hosted a range of Cray and other supercomputers since it was noted in Cray Channels that … <<< but See also below A document “Supercomputing in Finland and Europe” by Janne Ignatius 9.1.2015 provide insight into the Cray (and other) Supercomputers in Finland. Best pictures extracted here – Full
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