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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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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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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Finally found a set of PVP module pictures to go with the pre-2000 Family tree. Pictures from the Scott G. Collection at CBI. Photos were taken by Scott Grabow on December 19, 2000 just prior to the Cray Inc. Computer Center moving out of 655D Lone Oak Road, Eagan, MN. The larger family tree at
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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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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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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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