The 100th Machine ( which is a red XMP built in 85 ) about 55 Cray-1s were made. Celebration glasses with the inscription “Celebrating 100 of the worlds fastest Computers March 1985” were issued and an all employee party was held. The 100th Cray XMP was SN225 in March 1987 From Cray Chips […]
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Based in Hamberg, Germany DKRZ or Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH is high performance climate computing site with a long history of supercomputer deployments. An early user of CDC Cyber systems the site got its first Cray-2 system in November 1988. Following this a Cray-YMP4E followed in the early ’90s. By 1995 the site had moved on
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From Cray Chips “TO THE LAND OF THE TROLLS” 1986/12/11 For various reasons the route a system takes to reach its destination may be as individual as the computer’s configuration. Hank Rosenbaum proved this on following Serial 411 to Norway. The path led by truck from Chippewa Falls to Minneapolis; by plane to Chicago and
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Dag Spicer at the Computer History Museum writes .…. I also wanted to share with you a unique Cray artefact we have on permanent display in our Supercomputing gallery (with a Cray-1 (S/N 6), Cray-2, and Cray-3. It’s called, “lLttle Character” (1958) and the story I was told about it was that it was Seymour’s
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