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Cray Inc Vision and Roadmaps for product development 2000 .. 2010

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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Cray Supercomputers at VTKK / CSC in Finland

The VTKK Site in Finland has hosted a range of Cray and other supercomputers since it was noted in Cray Channels that … 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 Document here …   CSC Finland

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Jim Masocco recalls Cray Research and Cray Inc Stories

Cray Research and Cray Inc Stories   Hold issue failure A Cray analyst once told me of a strange problem that an oil company in Texas had where they reported that for some reason the seismic job that they ran every day on their X-MP that normally took many hours to run had started running

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How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born from the Cray CS6400

From https://cray-cyber.org/old/systems/E10kborn.php How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born A group of engineers in San Diego left their jobs at well established corporations (especially a large number of former NCR employees) to form their own company. They set out to build massively parallel computers with Sparc processors. The market they were targetting has traditionally been

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Jim Masocco recalls Seymour Cray Stories – With Interview

Cray Stories During the 25 years that I worked for Cray I was fortunate enough to meet many interesting people and hear many stories and urban legends about Seymour Cray, the company as well as interesting events that happened in the field. In some cases I even got to hear the story behind the story.

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Influence from the stars on supercomputer memories first discovered in Cray-1 SN1.

From Computer weekly Full write up here … that describes following the track of the neutrinos by lining up the single bit failures. First Record of Single Event Upset on the Ground Cray-1 Computer Memory at Los Alamos in 1976 Abstract Records of bit flips in the Cray-1 computer installed at Los Alamos in 1976

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“Cray systems” in popular culture

Cray supercomputers have shown up in popular culture, sometimes mentioning a specific machine type other times just using “Cray Computer”  in a generic sense. Listed here are some references to Cray systems in popular culture. Let us know if you know more. Books Jurassic park – Mentioned in the Michael Critchton book but a Connection

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Cray-2s at the NSA

Correspondent Kevin Smith reports from FB Hi Clive, I went down in the basement and dug around in my “CRI museum” and pulled out a few things. So, SN2004 and SN2005 were covered under SS-12 and SS-18 for our customer. SN2004 was RED/WHITE/BLUE while SN2005 was a shade of Brown ( see pics). Do not

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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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