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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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 about 1987 to 1997, it was traditional that Cray Research would ship a customer system book showing images from the factory of how the system was built. Included in the book, were pictures of the staff and machines that built the customers machine. A couple of examples of the system book have been captured
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What are the Cray Research connections with Apple Computers ? Cray XMP/48 with Apple SE inside (c)1987 John Greenleigh Cray Research and Apple Computers, seemly at opposite ends of the computer price spectrum, do have some subtle historical links. It is well known that Seymour Cray used an Apple desktop when designing Cray Computer Corp
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