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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Cray Supercomputer System modules page I finally found a set of PVP module pictures to go with the pre-2000 Family tree. Pictures from the Scott G. Collection at CBI. Some of these photos were taken by Scott Grabow on December 19, 2000 just prior to the Cray Inc. Computer Center moving out of 655D Lone
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My post in “At the controls” FB group got deleted because the content was mostly after 1970 – So here we are people “At the controls of Supercomputers” – Send your pictures to the usual address. In some reference caption text if you can.
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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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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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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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This collection of flash card collection images used on the HP timeline document. Thanks to Barb for sending over the photos.
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This page is dedicated to Cray related mugshots. See the other page for general memorabilia. Send your mugshots to the usual site contact details to be added here.
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 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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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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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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