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 …
If you look closely into the top of a Cray-2 we are able to make out rows of indicator lights that were used by service engineers to assess the state of a machine. In the event that a machine hung or unexpectedly halted, the indicator lights were examined to gain some idea of what was …
From: Charles Clark <*******@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Meeting on 7th October Date: 3 January 2022 at 16:15:48 GMT To: DCLaufer <davidl@*******> Cc: Clive England <clive@********> David, Clive just sent me the recording of our virtual visit to the CMoA in October and since you talked again about S/N 13, your Cray 1 from Max Planck, I …
This chart shows the approximate installed base of active Cray Research systems during the 1990s. The data that shows the XMP (red) being phased out in favour of the YMP (green) and the rise of the smaller J90 and EL systems (orange and yellow) in the later 1990s. The peek system install base in 1996 being …
Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) a personal memoir by Charles “Charlie” Clark I have seen lots of articles on Cray Supercomputers, their design. development, uses and installations, but I haven’t seen too much documented on the WEB about the Cray Engineers and Analysts who supported these systems in the field so I …
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Static can kill delicate electronics. From Cray Channels CC_V4_N4 “Cray Research’s new system test equipment focuses on quality.” The company’s newly-established in house system test facility includes a JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and a Tracor Northern Xray spectrum analyzer. The SEM and X-ray spectrum analyzer units together offer an extremely wide magnification range (10 to 180,000 times …
When you pay a few million $£€ for a supercomputer you expect great service. Here are a couple of service snapshots: An article about the introduction of the on-site module tester for XMP boards. From Volume 6 No 1 – Jan/Feb 1986 of Cray Interface The on site testing and repair procedures are described …
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Lists of publications known to exist from CMU and other sources. 04_Hardware_Publications_By_Part_Number_ 05_Hardware_Publications_By_Hardware_Groups_Another_Version 06_Hardware_Publication_Bibliography 02_1972_to_1996_Cray_Research_Manual_List 02_1996_to_2000_Cray_Research_Manual_List_within_SGI List of technical manuals available in .pdf form – If the one you want is not linked under the machine page contact us for a copy. 004-2081-002-Scientific_Libraries_Reference_Manual-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2081-002-Scientific_Libraries_Reference_Manual-Volume_1-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2081-002-Scientific_Libraries_Reference_Manual-Volume_2-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2138-003-Intrinsic_Procedures_Reference_Manual-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2151-002-Scientific_Libraries_Users_Guide-Version-3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2151-002-Scientific_libraries_User_Guide.pdf 004-2165-002-Application_Programmers_Library_Reference_Manual-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2165-002-Application_Programmers_Library_Reference_Manual-Volume_1-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2165-002-Application_Programmers_Library_Reference_Manual-Volume_2-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2178-002-CRAY_T3E_C_and_C++Optimization_Guide-Version_3.2-January_1999.pdf 004-2179-001-Cray_C_C++_Reference_Manual-Version_3.1-August_1998.pdf 004-2179-003-Cray_C_C++_Reference_Manual-Version_3.3-July_1999.pdf 004-2179-005-Cray_C_C++_Reference_Manual-Version_3.4-October_2000.pdf …
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Getting a new machine is always an exciting moment for customers and the installation engineer’s who often spend many hours testing and configuring the systems ready for acceptance. Your install picture are solicited for this entry. Email over to the contact address. Install Timelapse YouTubes: Installing Jaguar, update to Kraken Time lapse Upgrading Kraken processors Upgrading …
The Cray Channels magazine provides some insight into the customer and applications that used Cray Research Supecomputers. The Corporate Register section often listed customer orders and installation of Cray systems around the world. These have been extracted and are presented here for review. Further data analysis can be found on the Cray Channels Organisation page. …
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