CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-16, THREE SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”Three CRAY X-MP computers were accepted as of February 2: Serial 405 at Peugeot-Citroen in France, Serial 1203 at Mendota, and Serial 1105 at a U.S. air industry site. Presently involved in the customer’s testing required for acceptance is Serial 412 at an English university site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-23, A PLEASANT OCCASION,”In connection with our receiving the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Business-Education Partnership Award in Milwaukee in January, the local schools hosted a breakfast at the Marc Plaza in our honor. Don Whiting, who accepted the Award on behalf of Cray Research, also “”said a few words”” at the breakfast and presented Chippewa Schools Superintendent Jim Ramsdell with a memento. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-23, TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE,”Serial 412 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation in England, was accepted February 14. On February 13 acceptance testing of many recently shipped systems began: Serial 2023 CRAY-2 at NASA Langley in Virginia; Serial 303 CRAY X-MP at one of the national labs; and CRAY-2 Q2 at our Colorado Operations. Serial 1006 CRAY Y-MP entered its pre-acceptance testing phase February 15 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-23, TRAFFIC,”Serial 328 CRAY X-MP was shipped last week to a U.S. Government site in the Southwest. This was a reinstallation, as was the transfer of Serial 2002 CRAY-2 in January from NASA-Ames to another governmental agency. This system is presently undergoing acceptance testing. Serial 114 CRAY X-MP, supplanted at the original customer’s site by a later model CRAY system, has been installed at Tech Ops.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-09, EIC NARRATIVES,”There was good news in December. Of the 169 systems reporting, fifty-nine showed 100 percent availability. From the G.E. Aircraft Engine Business Group in Cincinnati and Serial 407, Rich Hansen notes: “”System usage is at an all-time high and the Custaner couldn’t be happier $$. • • • We’ve sent our ACE, Doug Taylor, up to Chippewa Falls for XMPotraining.”” Deborah Ettien reports from the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina: “”SN 1202 arrived on site at 10 am Decanber 5, 1988. During install there were only two minor problems • • • isolated and resolved in minimun time. On December 14 acceptance began at 8am. On Decanber 30 acceptance was ccmpleted with no incidents other than normal PM.”” The CRAY X-MP EA system, worth about $7 million, was ordered by the du Pont Company for the U.S. Department of Energy for nuclear reactor safety studies, environmental impact research, and chemical analyses. News from Bill Hill, Sandia, Albuquerque, on Serial 39 CRAY-I/S (a 7-yearold system–and Lundell Morgan still calls Serial 57, the last of the CRAY -1 ‘s, “”a real solid machine””! ): “”Our bus bar/MPL rework was proclaimed a success on12/05.• • • thanks go out to Sonja Gardner, James Begley, Carol Kruger, Carl Hemphill, Rebecca Drum, Linda Schindler, Betty Norrish, Elaine Berg, Darlene Anderson, Ed Boyle and Dan Pichelman for their fine efforts. After all the trauma to the hardware, we still managed to finish 1988 with 100% for the month!”” Of CRAY-2 Serial 2015 at Martin-NTB Jim Reed says, “” … we have now gone above 1000 hours for our MITI (Knock on wood)!”” Although Serial 1201 CRAY X-MP EA was shipped to the Shell Laboratory, Netherlands, in late October (Jan Kemp says: “”It seems that we got a nice and stable system from Chippewa. . . . The custaner noticed that especially the hardware installation went very smoothly and was impressed by the way we checked out the entire system by the [QA] book), KSEPL was reluctant to release the CRAY-l to be replaced: “”System is still heavily used, so the planned shutdown date forSIN53 has been postponed from the first of January until at least the first of February.”” Denis Yates writes an obituary from the University of London Computer Centre: ‘~.I.P.SIN28 – Goodbye Dear Friend. This machine was powered off on the 19th December for good.”” Tim Carlson at ARAMCO: “”Thanks go to Mike Young •.. for sitting in for Woody [Jon Woodworth] as he vacations in the US during the holidays. Mike has beccme an AMPEX disk drive guru with his detennination in fixing our spare AMPEX. Woody and I had saved it for him as a ‘Welcane to Saudi Arabia’ holiday present. We didn’t want him to beccme bored, since the Gulf war is now over.”” From the U. of Texas at Austin, Dewayne Cormack waxes paternal: “”This month we are8£ WARE THE NEW YORKERbabysitting a brand new bouncing baby XMP 14SE-EA’oFTUEAcceptance on sIn 1303 is due to be ccmpleted on Jan go to I, the 1989 install [i twas]. team for . . doing special a bang thanks up should job. • • Oh yea, the step child XMP [Serial 130] has been • ~ running good since the day it had a fit because the new baby was getting all the attenti1?10n.””. ~ ~jl , Tom Jackson of Product ~ ~ Support and his wife, Sabrina, welcomed their Larson, new baby on boy, February Jacob 28. “”Someday, my son, that will mean you.”” CRAY CHIPS~ publ~h~dby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-09, SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”Serial 1106 CRAY X-MP EA, at a government site in England, passed the tests preliminary to acceptance with 100 percent availability to the customer during the period. Serial 2002 CRAY-2 system also performed at 100 percent during acceptance testing at a U.S. Government site. Serial 2003 CRAY-2 was also accepted, at Mendota Heights.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-09, TWO TO CALIFORNIA,”A new customer is the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, which ordered a CRAY X-MP EA system and peripheral equipment to be purchased for about $7 million. Last Friday Serial 1206 was shipped to the Scientific and Engineering Facility, Albert A. Michelson Lab, China Lake, in fulfillment of the contract. The Scripps Clinic, the largest independent biomedical institution of its kind in the world, became a Cray Research customer in 1987 with the installation of Serial 503 CRAY X-MP/14se. Now this system is being replaced by a larger CRAY X-MP EA, Serial 1306, which was shipped March 3 to the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California. The leased supercomputer will be used for biotechnology applications such as designing and deciphering the shapes and dynamics of peptides*, proteins, and other biological materials.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-16, OUT WEST IN’ DECEMBER,”Comment from Steve MacPherson, Western Region: “”While out in Colorado, I could not pass up the opportunity to drive 2 hrs. thru snow, foul weather and Denver to take a look at the Cray-3 facilities and visit with myoId EIC Mike Feuerstein.”” On Serial 301 at the University of California in Berkeley Fred Miller has this to say: “”Hardware availability for the final month of 1988 was 100%. It is a pleasure to report that UN I COS 4.0 had another perfect rronth with no crashes of any kind.”” Dennis Wageman sends a good report on Serial 510 from Sterling Zero-One: “”We powered all systems off for the Holidays and on coming back up the refrigeration was a bearcat trying to bring it on line. The system has got to be powered up and heated up enough for the RCU”” s to recognize that it has a load on him. Anyway we accanplished the power up without any ~eart attacks. Availability for this systEm was 100%.”” From NASA-Ames Mike Cable reports on Serial 1002: “”Great news! On DeCEmber 8th the first Y-MP customer site acceptance was completed. This was no small feat considering this customers ability to develop codes that ‘break’ the machine. • • . To all of you that hopped on a plane at a seconds notice, that spent many days and even weeks away from home at our little slice of heaven ••• that got much needed materials to us when every minute counted, we all say thanks. It’s this level of support that helps make Cray customers stay Cray custaners! This, the newest jewel in our crown, is scheduled to enter full time production sometime in mid January when approximately 1000 users will be turned loose.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-16, UCAR FOR NCAR,Our news release of January 26 reported the order from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research for a CRAY X-MP system for the National Center. Reinstallation of Serial 331 is in process at NCAR; system leased.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-23, SOMETHING ABOUT THE VP OF TECH OPS,”Dick Morris’s association with Cray Research began in May of 1975. If we were to have a computer in the field within a year, there had to be support in the field. So Dick was hired as Director of Customer Engineering. The Hallie Lab was already filling up, but Les told him he could use the conference room; then Harry Runkel took him to lunch at the Flame (chow mein– ~ the Tuesday special); and that was orientation. “”George Leedom gave me a lot of help getting started,”” says Dick. . i “” Space was leased in the old Chippewa Shoe Building on River Street for ~ Dick’s group and Ken Seufzer’s artwork. (The building was pretty shabby s even then, but we were poor in those days.) Mason Shoe still had a machine V in the basement stamping out shoe soles. When it was in operation, Ken had~ to stop production of his glass masters because “”the whole building jumped.¥ ‘~IS Dick had an active role, along with Al Schiffleger, Dean Roush, Jack Wil- ~ Iiams, Dick Dellacca, and Dave Schulist, in the installation of Serial 1 CRAY-l computer at Los Alamos in 1976. The first machine to be checked out in the present Systems building was Serial 5. Dick was head of Systems Test and Checkout of systems 6 through 24 (he says he remembers the serial~ numbers better than the dates). Then in 1980 he transferred to Engineering, to become Dean Roush’s good right hand. “”He’s my brains,”” said Dean. In .. ~ May 1984 Dick assumed leadership of Technical Opera t.ions as Vise)President. :””‘””‘~ Grc~ .. , GUwo ~~~) . , ~ l~ ~Dick is a big man, with a small wife, Jan, and a daughter, Libby. He lives on Lake Wissota, likes good food and the French Impressionists, and thought at one time he’d li~e to own a hardware store: . – ni.7h~ -{“”low {‘lOvud- ~4- ~ocLvV’–& ~ ~<LV):Ol,~a.J)~-U A NATIONAL AWARD v’V.te.,~~ ~/c-~ 1. )~~V-~ Mark Senti, recently hired~n Test Engineering, won the title, “”Outstanding Technical Student of the Year,”” at the National Conference on Technical Education held in Fort Worth, Texas, March 16-19. Nominees were judged on scholarship, community involvement, and leadership. Mark made an excellent record at Chippewa Valley Technical College.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-23, VARIOUS SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”Los Alamos is the site of two recent installations which have now been approved: CRAY Y-MP Serial 1005 and Serial 303 CRAY X-MP. Serial 2023 CRAY-2 system met the customer’s standards and was accepted at NASA Langley in Virginia. In Italy Serial 515 CRAY X-MP/14se passed with 100 percent customer availability; the customer, the FIAT Auto Computer Center in Turin. Testing preliminary to customer acceptance began for CRAY Y-MP Serial 1007 at the Livermore Computer Center. The 8-processor 32-million-word system, plus peripherals, is being purchased by the Lawrence National Lab for about $24.5 million. At another Government site Serial 328 CRAY X-MP is in the acceptance phase.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-30, A SHIPMENT TO SWEDEN,”A four-processor eight-million-word CRAY X-MP system, Serial 206 (formerly at LANL) , ordered by the University of Linkoping, has been shipped to the computer facilities of Saab-Scania in Sweden. Serial 206 will replace Serial 9 CRAY-l, which was delivered to Saab-Scania in 1984. An article in Auto Week in 1987 is still interesting: “” ••. the masters of the Cray I supercomputer that lives in the aviation fortress at Linkoping provided the data-crunching that led to the most spectacular truck development–Computer-Aided Gear shifting, known at Scania by the acronym CAG. . . . the pressure gradients on a Saab 9000 generated by a computer . . • the Cray I at Linkoping . . • the aircraft aerodynamicists had helped write in the software to analyze the car guys’ shapes ••• the car engineers and the aviation engineers had begun using the Cray together to solve the low-speed aerodynamics modeling problems presented by the 9000’s design, then went on to design the new front suspension for the 9000, saving thousands of man-hours in the process .•. the technoid’s delight in the sheer sweet awesome power of something like a Cray.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-30, BY THE HALF DOZEN,”Six systems accepted: A CRAY Y-MP, Serial 1006, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Two CRAY X-MP EA systems, Serial 1304 at VTKK in Finland and Serial 1106 being purchased by the Royal Armament R&D Establishment, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Serial 314 CRAY X-MP, serving two universities in Brussels, Belgium; 100 percent customer availability during testing. Serial 328 at a U.S. Government site (also 100 percent), and Serial 440 at Mazda in Japan. At the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, Serial 1306 CRAY X-MP EA is undergoing acceptance testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-06, SHIPMENT OF CRAY X-MP SYSTEM,”Last week Serial 1308 departed for a new industrial customer location in the mid-United States. At the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, California, testing requisite to acceptance of Serial 1206 CRAY X-MP EA has begun.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-13, CRAY Y-MP SYSTEM ACCEPTED,Serial 1007 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California passed all tests and was accepted on March 31.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-13, SURVEYING THE SCENE,”The new Riverside Systems building, just east of the Harry Runkel Building and on the River, is enormous, and enormously practical. Perhaps we will not have to do an add-on within a short period of time. Numbers of workmen, our employees and contractors’, were encountered on a recent tour diligently hastening completion of the first construction phase. The checkout bays were getting their vital electrical and plumbing connections. Now six of the twelve bays are ready, says Brian Schneider, Chief Systems Engineer, in charge of the Systems building on Lowater Road. Serial 1501, the first of one of the new lines of CRAY Y-MP systems, and1/0subsystem will occupy one of these bays very shortly. Some of the offices and the bullpen are ready now, but July is the target for all the twelve bays to be finished and for the wholesale transfer of Brian and his 195 troops from present Systems to take place. The Systems group will be the chief occupant of the first floor, and Site Engineering, the second. Systems has been affectionately labeled “”stucco”” since times past when the department name was Systems Test and Checkout (STCO). Another traditional but not widely understood term is “”schmoo.”” To schmoo a system is very important if it is a new product or if design changes have been made to an established one. To schmoo a system is to run it to the extremes of its voltage or clock margins until it fails–trying to find optimum running values for both frequency and voltage. (It is our standard practice to run extended margins on all machines.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-20, A SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”Serial 1306 CRAY X-MP EA fulfilled customer expectations and was accepted at the Scripps Clinic and Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Into the acceptance phase is Serial 331 CRAY X-MP at NCAR in Boulder.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-20, SHIPMENT OF CRAY Y-MP,”Another CRAY Y-MP system was shipped last week, Serial 1008, with two I/O subsystems, to a U.S. Government installation.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, A PRODUCTIVE MEETING,”On Tuesday, April 18, a meeting of the Exhibition Center steering committee was held at Riverside Project. In attendance were Pete Peloquin, Janet Robidoux, Skip August, Sue Brown, Chris Gordon, Bob Halford, Lorelei Henneman, Joni Herren, Susan McLeod, and Edna Bunn. We regretted those who were missing because of schedule conflicts. A report was given on the meeting April 14 in the Ridgewood Drive educational building of Dave Frasch, Skip, Janet, and Susan with representatives of city businesses, the schools, and civic organizations to consider building plans. The business group was not ready to make many suggestions; they wanted to hear our ideas. Another meeting was set for this week. As a preliminary to the eventual setting up of comprehensive equipment displays, smaller exhibits are planned for several of our buildings. Eric Lindahl of Mendota is working on the museum garden for the new Marketing building to be opened next year as part of the Eagan Campus. Those displays will be aimed primarily at potential custaners. In the Harry Runkel Building a historic Control Data 1604 canputer, one of Seymour’s earliest designs, is set up. Bob Halford will work on mini-exhibits for the display cabinets in Engineering. Serial 8 CRAY-l M system will go to the Computer Museum in Boston. The first CRAY X-MP system, Serial 101, has been tagged for our “”museum.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, ANOTHER COMPUTER TO SPAIN,”TECNATOM, S.A. is the second Spanish organization to receive a CRAY X-MP computer system. (Serial 27 was delivered to Construcciones Aeronauticas in Madrid a year ago.) Serial 501 was shipped this week, also to Madrid, also a reinstallation. The 14se system is to be purchased. Another CRAY Y-MP system, Serial 1009, was shipped to a Department of Energy site in the northeastern United States last Friday.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, TESTING BY A NEW CUSTOMER,”At Monsanto’s Life Sciences Research Facility in St. Louis, Missouri, Serial 1308 CRAY X-MP EA system is in the acceptance testing period. (I wonder whether JAR played salesman here. I think he used to work for Monsanto.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, VIVIAN DANENBERG TO RETIRE,”Cray Research had shipped only one computer when Vivian came to work for us on November 1, 1976. She has done everything that needed to be done to get more systems out the door: modules, wiring, inventory, and finally supervisor, mechanical assembly. Vivian will be greatly missed. A buffet dinner in her honor is planned for May 12 at 6:30 at the Fill Inn, $9 per person. Send your check made payable to the Fill Inn to Judy Schwellenbach, Manufacturing, by May 5. Give Vivian a good send-off!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, A GRAND FINALE,”It’s great that early Cray Research systems are coveted as examples of some of the first supercomputers. Serial 42 CRAY-l S has been installed in the Hanford Science Center in Washington State, which was opened in 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. Steve Baumann of our Seattle office reports this is a working museum with timely changing exhibits and interactive displays where, for example, school kids can operate a robotic arm, and includes an energy education program with tips on home construction. Serial 42 is displayed with a column of modules exposed. Next to it is an exhibit of the activities at the Hanford nuclear R&D site where Serial 327 CRAY X-MP was installed late in 1986. (“”System per~ormance continues to be outstanding,”” wrote Lou Collins on Serial 327 in December’s field reports.) The history of Serial 42 included a software working stint at Mendota, as the system was one of the first to include an SSD. In July 1982 Marketing Support reported it “”an exceptionally stable machine.”” The first customer site was Sohio in Dallas in March 1983. In 1985 the memory was upgraded and the computer reinstalled at Fairchild in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, ACCEPTANCE OF CRAY X-MP SYSTEM,”Serial 1206 CRAY X-MP EA/116 has been accepted at the Naval Weapons Center in California as of April 22. Evaluation of the computer and peripherals is about $7 million. The “”Swedish universities”” system, Serial 206 CRAY X-MP, is under testing for acceptance, as of April 25. Acceptance criterion is thirty days at 97 percent availability during the prime shift.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, PICNIC AT ANSON PARK,”Please note the change of site for the Annual Picnic from the Chippewa Fairgrounds to Anson Park at Jim Falls (where there is a boat landing). The date is Saturday, June 24, 12 noon to 5 pm. Tickets will go on sale June 5. Among several forms of entertainment will be the Jim Sealy Band. Food-stand items (like those at the Fair) will be available throughout the afternoon. Manpower employees are invited. Please bring your cameras and lawn chairs. Contact one of the Picnic ’89 Committee if you have questions: Juli Ahneman, Sandy Ohm, or Barb Walters.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, SHIPMENT OF CRAY X-MP SYSTEM,Last Friday Serial 1309 CRAY X-MP EA/116se system left the dock for a North American petroleum customer’s site.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-11, ACCEPTANCE BY AN OLD FRIEND,”At the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Serial 331 CRAY X-MP was accepted May 8 with 100 percent availability during a thirty-day testing period. A CRAY Y-MP system, Serial 1008, is being put through its required paces at a Special Systems site, as of May 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-25, FIRST Y-MP SHIPMENT OUTSIDE U.S.,”KFA (Kernforschungsanlage), Juelich, West Germany’s largest scientific research laboratory, ordered a CRAY Y-MP 8-processor 32-million-word supercomputer last year. KFA is a long-time customer, having acquired one of the earliest CRAY X-MP systems, Serial 104, in 1983. That computer system is now being replaced by the CRAY Y-MP, Serial 1011, which was shipped last Thursday.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-25, SHIPMENT TO A NEW WEST COAST CUSTOMER,”California was the destination for reinstallation of Serial 320 CRAY X-MP, shipped last Friday. An interesting aside is that this customer was a major contractor in building the Magellan planetary probe which is on its way to Venus. If there had been any problem in the shuttle launch, they might have been too busy to get the site ready for us!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-01,” “”””””SUBJECT: THE OLD ‘WORK HORSE’ RETIRES”””””””,”It was perhaps fitting that this announcement from Charlie Clark of Cray Research (UK) Ltd was received on traditional Memorial Day: “”SIN1 the (prototype) first Cray system was powered off for the last time on 25th May 1989. The system has been in continuous service since it shipped from Chippewa on 5th March 1976, a total of 13 years 2 months and 20 days. “”It is a credit to the Engineers who built it and the support staff who have maintained it over the years, that apart from the ‘occasional’ parity error (the half million word memory has no SECDED), the last set of 26 weeks statistics showed it running at 690 hours MTTI and it regularly did better than that. “”SIN1 is also well travelled, it was accepted on 1st April 1976 by LANL who kept it for 17 months before upgrading, to become one of Cray’s largest customers. Crossing the ‘pond’ it becomes Cray Research’s first international machine when it moved to ECMWF at Reading, England, in November 1977. It stayed here for 11 months whileSIN9 was manufactured to replace it (ECMWF have twice upgraded through our range of computers and are currently running on anXMP/48).Staying in situ it was then taken over by the second international customer AWE while they waited forSIN11 to be built. (AWE are still successfully runningSIN11, but have also added anXMP/2to their facility) . “”After 4 months it was on its wheels again to move 200 miles north to Manchester where the Science Research Council used it for 20 months. It moved south again in February 1981 when the Atomic Energy Research Establishment installed it at their labs in Harwell (AERE now runSIN2008 Cray 2). After 13 months it moved, in June 1982, to another government customer in England where it has served faithfully for nearly seven years. “”We will pack upSIN1 carefully and return it to Chippewa where I am told it will have a place of honour in the Chippewa Computer Museum. “”SIN 1,it will it all. as most of the ‘old hands’ know, has been an excellent machine and have a special place in many peoples memories as the one that started However, enough of this nostalgia, send us the next YMP!! ~”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-01, ANOTHER CRAY X-MP SYSTEM ACCEPTED,In Sweden Serial 206 CRAY X-MP passed customers’ criteria and was accepted right on schedule May 25. The Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council initiated the purchase of the system to provide a national supercomputing facility for academic research primarily in the fields of physics and chemistry. It is accessible to all of the Swedish universities and to Saab-Scania for aircraft and automotive design.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-01, CRAY X-MP EA ACCEPTED,”Serial 1308 has been accepted at the Monsanto Life Sciences Research Facility in St. Louis, as of May 15. Cumulative Mean Time To Interruption was 700 hours.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, ACCEPTANCE IN SPAIN,”Serial 501 CRAY X-MP/14se has been accepted at TECNATOM, S.A., which serves the major Spanish electrical utility, with 100 percent availability to customer during testing. The system is used for real-time applications, including nuclear reactor simulation and plant operator training.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, ACCEPTANCE OF A CRAY Y-MP SYSTEM,”Serial 1008 CRAY Y-MP, with eight processors, 32-million words of memory, and two I/O’s, was accepted over the weekend at a Special Systems site. Presently undergoing acceptance testing is Serial 1009 CRAY Y-MP system at a Department of Energy site in New York, as of May 26.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, THE CRAY-l IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,”Thursday evening, May 11, a reception was held in the National Air and Space Museum to show off our Serial 14 in a new exhibit. The exhibit is the most expensive displayed by the Smithsonian, and the Air and Space Museum, which opened in 1976, is the most visited of all the museums and galleries. It is coincidental that 1976 was also the year the first CRAY-l computer system was delivered to a customer. The entry into the large arena reads, “”Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age: how computers have revolutionized the aerospace industry.”” Many government officials were on hand for the festivities with Cray Research personnel from other parts of the country as well as those of Eastern Region and Government Operations. Serial l4’s former lives included tours of duty at Kirtland Air Force Base, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In 1986 Serial 14 was replaced at NCAR by a large CRAY X-MP system. In 1987 Serial 14 was displayed at Techno Expo in Eau Claire. To make the most of my Washington trip, besides MATHCOUNTS and the Smithsonian I visited our Government Operations offices. Suite 1331 at 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue is more than sweet; it is “”stately,”” to impress the nation’s statesmen. In Chippewa Falls we have Cray computer systems to impress important visitors and customers. A neighbor of Cray Research in Washington, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (also known as the White House), is George Bush (also President of the United States). Our people now number thirteen, led by VP Pete Dillingham. The others are Bill Bartolone, Suzy Tichenor, Denise Andrews, Sandy Price, Dale Tahtinen, Bob Haley, Melina Fraser, Kathleen Bernard, Lisa Taylor, Carl Norton, Robert Enk, and Claire Garrett. Dale Tahtinen was suffering from a broken leg, but it didn’t deter his traveling to Minneapolis for the momentous stockholders meeting.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-15, FINALS,”A couple of systems are presently in the final stage–testing to satisfy the customer and be accepted: CRAY Y-MP Serial 1011 at KFA in West Germany and Serial 320 CRAY X-MP at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. This new customer is leasing the CRAY X-MP system for earth, ocean, and space supercomputing projects.”

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CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-13, REINSTALLATION AND REPLACEMENT IN ENGLAND,”Serial 317 CRAY X-MP computer system has been reinstalled at a UK government site, replacing venerable Serial -I CRAY-l, which is being returned for the museum. Serial 317’s former home was with Shell UK Limited of London.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-13, SHIPMENT OF CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER,Last Friday Serial 1013 CRAY Y-MP system left the loading dock for a Department of E?ergy laboratory in the eastern United States.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, A REINSTALLATION IN EUROPE,”Serial 318 CRAY X-MP, which was formerly owned by the University of Kiel in West Germany, has been delivered to a new European customer. (Serial 318 was superseded at the University by a larger CRAY X-MP system, Serial 416.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, ACCEPTANCE IN CALIFORNIA,At Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Serial 320 CRAY X-MP system passed all criteria and was accepted on July 4.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, END OF AN ERA,”The reign of the CRAY X-MP computer systems is at an end, giving way to the more powerful CRAY Y-MP line, with nineteen different models. The CRAY X-MP has been enormously successful and needs yield only to more superior products of our own. Cray Research built 189 CRAY X-MP computers in eight basic model types, including the EA systems, with one to four processors and onemillion to 64-million words of memory. The Serial 500 and 1300 EA are “”se”” systems, economy models priced at oDly $2.5 to $3.5 million. The first shipment of a CRAY X-MP system to a customer (Government) was June 10, 1983, just over six years ago. The first four-processor CRAY X-MP system was born in 1984 and christened “”Abner.”” The last three CRAY X-MP systems to be produced were Serials 1109, 1209, and 1316. They’re still “”super””!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, SHIPMENT OF X-MP TO JAPAN,”On Wednesday, July 12, shipment was made of Serial 1314 CRAY X-MP supercomputer system to a new Japanese customer, a leading chemical company.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-27, CRAY Y-MP TO UNIVERSITY,”A CRAY Y-MP system, the first with 64-million words of memory, has been shipped tq the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus. The eight-processor computer system, Serial 1014, is to be purchased for about $22 million, and replaces a CRAY X-MP that has served researchers in aerodynamics, chemistry, astronomy, and physics in more than twenty colleges–and is “”saturated.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-03, BUILDING UPDATE,”RIVSYS, at 1620 Olson Drive, is bustling. About 200 employees are now established in their new habitat. Ron Davis’s Site Engineering group did a wholesale evacuation of the Grand Avenue building. Brian Schneider’s Systems department is not yet all moved, but it will eventually be the largest entity. Equipment and furnishings are arriving right along. Karen Holte is at the reception desk; the extension is 821. (It was my pleasure also to have a relative working for the Company this summer–sort of. My younger stepgrandson helped put in the sprinkler system.) A new Printed Circuits building is going up just beyond the Machining Center. Present P.C. is “”out to the walls.”” The walls are up on one section of what will be another giant–76,000 square feet. Market & Johnson is the constructor. The building is not due to be complete until next spring. (On my first visit to the site all I could see were piles of dirt and a big scoop labeled “”Hitachi EX150″”–they’re into everything.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-03, N SPAIN,”Testing for acceptance of Serial 513 CRAY X-MP computer system began July 5 and finished July 15, with 100 percent availability to the customer. On July 13 testing preliminary to acceptance of CRAY Y-MP system Serial 1012 started at the NASA Ames Central Computing Facility in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-10, ACCEPTANCE OF CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER,CRAY Y-MP system Serial 1009 was accepted at a U.S. Government site mid-July.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-10, MORE FROM THE NEWSLETTER  ACCESS,”An article of interest to everyone, “”Supercomputer cancer research,”” by Ka thleen Robinson, said in part: “”Charles Cain, UIUC professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering, is discussing his current research into methods for treating cancer with the application of heat–hyperthermia. . . When he started this work in the early 1980s, Dr. Cain had to send his calculations toa supercomputer in Japan, but he now conducts his research using the NCSA CRAY X-MP/48 system. • . Phased array applicators are complicated devices and constructing prototypes is both t~e-consuming and expensive, so Dr. Cain and his group opt~ize all of the parruneters in the design before building a prototype. ‘We use the supercomputer both to test our theory for phasing–by assuming a certain complicated structure with same number of elements having a particular geometry–and to compute the fields that would be produced in tissue. ‘”” NCSA at Illinois was the first National Center to own and operate two Cray Research supercomputers, Serial 2020 CRAY-2 and Serial 219 CRAY X-MP. Two classes of undergrad and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have had the opportunity to use one of the systems. Kathleen Robinson also wri tes, “”Mike Nonnan reflects.”” Dr. Norman is a NCSA research scientist. “”In October of 1980, Dr. Norman arrived at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, where he had access to a newly installed CRAY 1A supercomputer. It had ‘one million words of central memory,’ Dr. Norman remembers with some amusement. ‘A million words of memory was–you just couldn’t ~ine it. It was uncharted territory. We couldn’t begin to use it especially in astrophysics, where 20 by 20 grids–400 zones–were typical. In the su~r of 1981 we used a staggering 50,000 zones. These days, people do s~ulations involving a million zones on NCSA’s CRAY X-MP/48 system. But back then, 50,000 was a quantum leap.’ The CRAY 1A system allowed Drs. Norman, Smarr, and Winkler to construct the most detailed hydrodynrunic model of an extragalactic jet that had ever been computed. The work was embraced by Martin Rees and the rest of the astrophysical community; it inaugurated an era of jet s~lations. There are now a number of computational astronomers doing jet s~ulations, but the paper written in Munich after that summer’s research was the first to show the detailed structure of jets.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-10, OTHER BUSINESS,”In addition to the m~st important job–building and installing new computer systems–a great deal of time, effort, and expertise of Cray Research personnel go into upgrading systems. As this work is done on site, it is a real challenge to the special teams who are sent out on these jobs. The SWAT team is one such group of specialists. Among recent missions accomplished were an 8-million-word-memory upgrade to Serial 432 CRAY X-MP system at a Government site; 4-million-word upgrades to Serial 127 CRAY X-MP at Bell Labs, Serial 309 at Aerospace (plus an SSD upgrade), and Serial 408 in Missouri; and a 2-million-word upgrade to Serial 305 at CINECA in Italy. Half a dozen more are scheduled before year end, including one of l6-M words. Upgrades to Solid-state Storage Devices are another major item. Then there is the usual assortment of disks, front-end interfaces, replacement modules, and cables to be added to existing systems at sites.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-17, FINAL EXAMS,”Several assorted systems entered the customers’ acceptance testing phase at the end of July: Serial 2003 CRAY-2 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Serial 1013 CRAY Y-MP system at a Department of Energy site; and Serial 317 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation at another Government installation. On August 7 Serial 318 began acceptance testing in West Germany.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-17, SHIPMENT OF TWO SYSTEMS TO FRANCE,”Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP was recently shipped to an automotive agency in France, another new customer. Reinstallation of Serial 233 CRAY X-MP, a fourprocessor system, at a French national aerospace facility has been accomplished.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-17, SHIPMENT OF TWOCRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS,”A new customer, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical University, has received one of the two-processor, l6-million-word CRAY Y-MP systems in our expanded line. Serial 1401 is installed at Texas A&M’s main campus at College Station and is to be purchased. A second CRAY Y-MP supercomputer, Serial 1016, an eight-processor with 64 million words of memory and two I/O subsystems, has been delivered to a U.S. Government site.”

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CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-24, SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”Another large CRAY Y-MP system, Serial 1012, the second Y-MP for this staunch supporter and customer–NASA Ames–was accepted August 12 at Moffett Field, California. (In NASA TECH BRIEFS of November 1988: “”In one of the most complex computer s~lations ever attempted, involving 22 trillion calculations, NASA researchers have recreated to a new degree of precision the unsteady airflow within jet engine turbines and compressors. . . Although the s~lation now requires 100 hours . . . NASA expects within a year to reduce the t~ to 20 hours, in part by using the new CRAY Y-MP which was recently delivered to Ames’ Numerical Aerodynrumic S~lation (NAS) super~ computer facility ••.. the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Y-MP can handle up to 240 billion bytes of high-speed storage.””)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-24, TO THE TARHEEL STATE,”Last October Cray Research received a contract from the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina for the purchase of a CRAY Y-MP system costing almost $13 million. Serial 1015, 8 processors, 32-mi11ion words of memory, was shipped August 18 to the North Carolina Supercomputing Center near Raleigh, to be used by universities and research organizations for scientific and engineering projects.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, SHIPMENT TO JAPANESE CUSTOMER,The third shipment last week was to Mitsubishi’s Resea~c~ Center in Okazaki. Announcement of an order from the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation for a CRAY X-MP EA system was made last December. ° Serial 1502 was shipped in fulfillment of this order from yet another automotive customer in Japan.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, SPECIAL SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”Serial 317 CRAY X-MP has been accepted at a Government site with 100 percent availability to the customer during the twenty days of testing required. Added to the systems already undergoing acceptance testing are these: As of August 9, Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP at the French automaker Renault, a new customer; August 14, Serial 1014 CRAY Y-MP at the Ohio Supercomputer Center; August 19, Serial 209 CRAY X-MP; August 21, Serial 233 ~n France and at Texas A&M, Serial 1401 CRAY Y-MP (second system to a unive~sity in Texas).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, TWO LARGE CRAY Y-MP SYSTEMS ARE SHIPPED,”Announcement was made in July of the order from the Ford Motor Company for an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP system. Serial 1018, which is to be leased, was shipped to the Engineering Computer Center in Dearborn last Friday. The second CRAY Y-MP supercomputer to be shipped last week was Serial 1017, eight processors, 64-million words of memory, and two1/0subsystems. It was delivered to a U.S. Government custome~ site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-07, SERIAL ONE COMES HOME,”Serial CRAY-l is in the Hallie Lab, right back where it started from over thirteen years ago. Neither picture shows the famous computer at its best–not in natty “”skins”” and minus the power supplies with their “”loveseats.”” The system was loaded into a truck under wraps on a blustery, snowy day, March 4, 1976, to be delivered to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (it was LASL then). Ginny Fetter and Jerry Brost are among those seeing the computer off. The great performer was still going strong after service at half a dozen customer sites when it was turned off and returned from England. While presently sort of in its underwear, original skins will be restored; and the CRAY-l will be in full fig for display in the museum.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-07, WITH FLYING COLORS,”Serial 2003 CRAY-2 supercomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was accepted August 26 after a thirty-day testing period afforded 100 percent availability to the customer. In West Germany Serial 318 CRAY X-MP system passed all tests and was accepted. At a new Japanese customer’s site, Sumitomo Chemical, acceptance testing of Serial 1314 CRAY X-MP began August 23; also on that date testing of CRAY Y-MP Serial 1016 supercomputer at a U.S. Government site. At the North Carolina Supercomputing Center testing for acceptance of Serial 1015 CRAY Y-MP system started August 30. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, ~EEP IN THE HEART OF,”Two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers have just been accepted in the field. At Texas A&M University in College Station Serial 1401 was accepted after only fourteen days of testing, with 100 percent availability to the customer during that period. Eight-processor Serial 1013 at a DOE laboratory in the northeastern United States was accepted on August 30. A reinstalled CRAY X-MP system, Serial 209, was accepted after just fourteen days also.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, SHIPMENT OF CRAY X-MP SYSTEM,”A four-processor CRAY X-MP computer system, Serial 1107, also departed last Friday, for delivery to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, SHIPMENT OF CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER TO JAPAN,Mitsubishi Electric ordered a four-processor CRAY Y-MP system to be purchased at a cost of almost $9 million. Serial 1503 has been shipped to the Large-Scale Integration Laboratory in the outskirts of Osaka.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-21, SYSTEMS ACCEPTED OVERSEAS,”From France and Japan confirmation has been received of the acceptance of two CRAY X-MP EA/se systems, with 100 percent availability records: at the Renault Technical Center in Rueil-Malmaison near Paris, Serial 1313; and at the Sumitomo Chemical facility, Serial 1314.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-21, TWO CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS ARE SHIPPED,”Last Friday an eight-processor system, Serial 1010, left for overseas and an Italian customer. Serial 1403, with two processors, departed Tuesday for delivery to a Special Systems site. A CRAY-2 SUPERCOMPUTER IS SHIPPED Serial 2025 CRAY-2 system was shipped last Friday also–“”out west.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-28, ACCEPTANCE STATESIDE,”Our top-of-the-line model, Serial 1014 CRAY Y-MP, with eight processors and 64-million words of memory, was accepted at the Ohio Supercomputer Center September 13. Another large CRAY Y-MP system, eight-processor Serial 1018, is undergoing testing for acceptance at the Ford Motor Engineering Computer Center.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-28, NORTH TO SCANDINAVIA,”Last weekend shipment was made of a four-processor CRAY X-MP system, Serial 1109, to the Finnish State Computer Center, VTKK, in Espoo, near Helsinki. The order was received a year ago, and in early January Serial 1304 CRAY X-MP/14se was airmailed to VTKK as an interim system. Our computers are used for research by twenty Finnish universities, the Technical Research Center of Finland, and the Meteorological Institute for weather forecasting.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-28, OVERSEAS CUG MEETING,”This year the Cray Users Group conference held abroad was in Trondheim, Norway. SINTEF/University of Trondheim, site of CRAY X-MP Serial 411, hosted the gathering last week, the theme, “”Parallel Supercomputing Applications.”” Chippewa people in attendance were Lou Saye, Stue Drayton, Gary Shorrel, and Gary Becker. Gary Shorrel gave this report: “”The customers seemed very pleased with the Y-MP products–were getting a lot of work done. It was an upbeat and positive session. We received good feedback in addition to that on the Ys. There was great interest in where Cray Research is going for future products and technologies, and a great deal of interest in the CRI-CCC spin-off. Marcelo spoke very well on that subject–answered a lot of questions. Ed Masi and Bob Ewald were there, and lots of software people.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-05, CRAY Y-MP SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”An eight-processor CRAY Y-MP, Serial 1016, was accepted September 21 at a Special Systems facility. Also in Japan, Serial 1502 CRAY Y-MP at the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Research Center began acceptance testing. Serial 1017 CRAY Y-MP entered upon its rigors for acceptance September 25, at a Government site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-05, THREE CRAY Y-MP SYSTEMS SHIPPED,”The supercomputers went far and wide last week. Serial 1402 CRAY Y-MP was shipped to a good old customer in Japan. An existing petroleum customer’s site was the destination for Serial 1404. Serial 1505 CRAY Y-MP traveled to Europe, to another old customer, in West Germany.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-05, TRANSITION CENTER,Please note this special number for the Transition Center at Site Engineering: 723-0195.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-12, ACCEPTANCE IN MICHIGAN,Serial 1018 CRAY Y-MP system has been accepted at the Ford Computer Center in Dearborn after only fourteen days of testing with 100 percent availability to the customer during the trial period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-12, ACCEPTANCE IN NORTH CAROLINA,”Serial 1015 CRAY Y-MP system was accepted September 29, at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center near Raleigh.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-12, CRAY Y-MP SYSTEM TO FRANCE,”It has been seven years since the first installation at this French customer site of a CRAY-l S system; there have been several since. Last week Serial 1021 left on its journey over the big pond to the land of camembert, truffles, escargot, and chic (Parisian women do have it, even those you wouldn’t consider beautiful). The system is an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP supercomputer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH PUTS AN END TO CRAY-l S SERIAL 56,”””The last official new CRAY-l S to be shipped from Chippewa Falls,* it was the first one to make it across the Canadian border, in September 1983, thereby creating and helping in the success of Cray Canada Inc.·· Although it was officially replaced in 1986 by a swifter X-MP 28 it has kept on crunching for a number of scientists, universities, and Cray Canada potential customers’until today. “”There were no bells or whistles, no official ceremony, as if no one dared witness its last clock cycle. Two days later, with all modules and power supplies removed, it left, a skeleton, for the National Museum of Sciences and Technologies. Unfortunately the truck that was to carry it could not make it, and the only one available on short notice was a flatbed of the *Ed. note: Serial 57 was the last CRAY-l S systan to be built, but it was shipped five days before Serial 56. same type as those used to carry cars to the scrap yard. I don’t think that a system that never really broke, but occasionally stopped functioning, deserved such an end. “”In a few days a brand-new X-MP 416 will fill the exact footprint where Serial 56 stood proudly for six years, and I am sure our not-so-young X-MP 28 will shiver a little. So to all of you out there who ever had to work on or were even remotely involved with Serial 56’s life cycle–from the wiring to the marketing people, the analysts to the truck drivers, the technicians to the install and deinstall teams–whether -for a few hours or a few years: Thank you; thank you for a job more than well done!””JACQUES VESLAURIERS, SiteManag~,CanadianMeteo~otogical Cent~”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, REINSTALLATION,Serial 510 CRAY X-MP system has been shipped to a new customer in West Germany.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, SHIPMENT OF CRAY X-MP EA,”Serial 1108 CRAY X-MP EA system, with four processors and l6-million words of memory, was delivered to a Canadian government centre this week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, SHIPMENT OF CRAY-2 SYSTEM,”Last Friday Serial 2027 CRAY-2 supercomputer was shipped to an already existing customer in France. The system is their second CRAY-2, and it is being installed at a site near Paris. Last week’s report of the shipment of Serial 1021 CRAY Y-MP system to a classic French customer, Electricite de France, stated erroneously that the supercomputer had eight processors; Serial 1021 has four processors and 32 million words of memory. The national utilities company has ordered a second CRAY Y-MP system for imminent delivery; total value of the two with peripherals almost $25 million. Serial 1021 has been installed in Clamart.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”In Okazaki, Japan, Serial 1502 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer was accepted by the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Research Center on October 4, after only ten days of testing, with 100 percent availability to the customer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, SYSTEMS IN ACCEPTANCE,”Testing of Serial 1107 CRAY X-MP computer, installed by Grumman at the NASA Johnson Space Center iri Houston, began October 9. The system is worth almost $14 million and is the first installation of a CRAY at Johnson, NASA’s mission control center and headquarters for astronaut training. Serial 1503 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer is into the acceptance testing phase at the Mitsubishi Electric site, Osaka, Japan. CRAY Y-MP computer systems Serial 1010 in Italy and Serial 1403, a Special Systems installation, are both undergoing testing for acceptance.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-19, TODAY’S THE DAY!,”Software Training is now officially at the new Lone Oak site. The address is 655-A Lone Oak Drive, Eagan, MN 55121; telephone 612 683-3800; fax 612 683-3899.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-26, ACCEPTANCE IN FRANCE!,Serial 233 CRAY X-MP system has been accepted at a French national aerospace research facility after sixty days of testing. (The French organizations have traditionally required lengthy trial periods.)

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-26, HERE WE GO AGAIN,”Another computer system has been shipped to France. Serial 1501 is the second CRAY Y-MP supercomputer for Electricite de France; it is in process of installation at the research facility in Clamart. EDF was the first French customer to acquire a CRAY Y-MP, and Serial 1501 is the seventh Cray system to be contracted for by this national power company.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-26, RIVSYS OPEN HOUSE,”It was a lovely day for an Open House Saturday, October 7. That’s what about 500 Cray employees and families thought when they visited Riverside Systems that afternoon. The tour was self-guided–just follow the numbers and arrows–and designed to be representative of every aspect of the RIVSYS operations. In Site Engineering the CAD machine was working, producing drawings of the CRAY Y-MP system as souvenirs for the kids. A CRAY Y-MP was on display in one of the computer bays, and the peripheral test area showed another important part of our business. The walk-through ended with coffee, punch, and lots of cookies served to appreciative guests. Scott Armstrong, Judy Schafer, and Jan Krahn deserve the credit for arranging this successful get-together.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-02, A SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”In Japan Serial 1503 CRAY Y-MP fulfilled expectations and was accepted after only fourteen days of testing; 100 percent availability to the customer, Mitsubishi Electric, too.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-02, BIG SPLASH IN OHIO,”John Dimpfel of Tech Ops mentioned early last week that the governor of Ohio was to appear at the official dedication of Serial 1014 CRAY Y-MP computer system at the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus on Wednesday, October 25. So I called John Marinchek at OSC on Thursday to find out how it went. It went great, said John. Besides the governor, Dick Celeste, the director of the Supercomputer Center, Charlie Bender, was there, and William McCurdy, the very first director, who had a great deal to do with the procurement of Cray computer systems for the University and Center. Derek Robb represented our area and presented the governor with a little replica CRAY Y-MP (Mr. Celeste was pleased). John said a tent was set up, the food was good, and the weather warm (just like ours!). The Center attracts a lot of media attention and can’t help bragging about having the first 64-million-word CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. The Center was established in 1987 on acquisition of a CRAY X-MP computer system, to provide supercomputing to all Ohio researchers and engineers, academic and industrial. Twenty-one colleges and universities are connected to the OSC. Ongoing projects are real-time storm prediction from meteorological models of Lake Erie, modeling of collisions between black holes and stars, and modeling of hurricane development under potential future greenhouse conditions. New research with the CRAY Y-MP may include modeling thrombin–a major component of blood involved in blood clotting, pollution and water treatment studies, and drought analysis to improve reservoir operation. (Thanks, too, to Jim Garman for his information.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-02, SYSTEMS IN ACCEPTANCE,”Three have newly entered that stage: Serial 1404 CRAY Y-MP2 computer system, at the Phillips Petroleum Company computer center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on October 18; Serial 1505 CRAY Y-MP4, at Leibniz Rechenzentrum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, October 17; and Serial 1402 CRAY Y-MP2 in Japan on October 23.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-02, TWO CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS SHIPPED,”The General Motors Research Corporation main computer facility in Warren, Michigan, is the recipient of Serial 1504, a CRAY Y-MP4 computer system worth about $13.5 million. The system will be leased and used for automotive research and design. The CRAY Y-MP replaces the first Cray computer system to be acquired by General Motors, Serial 37 CRAY-l S. GM also has a CRAY X-MP computer. The second CRAY Y-MP system to be shipped last week is a CRAY Y-MP2 model, Serial 1408, delivered to a new UK customer, British Aerospace PIc (I wonder what that means). The $8 million system will be leased. It will have a variety of uses besides aerospace engineering applications, including automotive design.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-09, A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SITE,”The U.S. Army is an old customer, but the Waterways Experiment Station sounds new and interesting. In June we announced an order from the Army for an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP supercomputer and peripherals worth about $25.5 million. The system, Serial 1022, will be purchased, and it is being installed in a new WES facility, the Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi. “”The system will be used for military and civil works projects related to national defense, flood control, and navigation.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-09, A TRIO FOR LOCKHEED,”Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company ordered a $9-million CRAY Y-MP2 computer system for its Engineering Research and Development Center in Rye Canyon, California. Serial 1407 has been delivered, will be ~eased, and joins Serial 110 CRAY X-MP at the site. (Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in Sunnyvale also has a CRAY X-MP computer system, Serial 1105.) Another CRAY Y-MP supercomputer, Serial 1506, was shipped to an existing customer in West Germany, a prestigious automotive concern. Reinstallation of a CRAY X-MP system is in process in Italy, Serial 116, formerly at LRZ in Munich.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-09, THE FINAL HURDLE,”Serial 1017, a huge CRAY Y-MP system with eight processors, 64-million words of memory, two I/O subsystems, and an SSD solid-state storage device, was accepted at a Government site after a thirty-day testing period.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-09, UNDERGOING THE TREATMENT,In process of acceptance testing are Serial 1021 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer at Electricite de France and Serial 1109 CRAY X-MP system at the Finnish State Computer Center.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, DONE!,”Technical acceptance periods of two systems were completed last week: at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas, Serial 1107 CRAY X-MP EA, and at an established customer’s site in Europe, Serial 1010 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. Testing for acceptance of two systems in France has begun: Serial 1501 CRAY Y-MP4 at Electricite de France, for 30 days, and Serial 2027 CRAY-2 system at a government installation, for 60 days.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, HUNTSVILLE DISASTER,”The loss of lives, numerous injuries, and terrible destruction caused by the tornadoes in Huntsville made us anxious about our people there. Last Thursday morning I called the Huntsville Sales Office, and LurIa Harris reported “”all the sites are fine, and everybody that works for Cray is all right.”” We have three installations in the area: LurIa said she can see the Alabama Supercomputer Center, where Serial 428 CRAY X-MP has been in operation for the past two years. The Army Strategic Defense Command Simulation Center, home of Serial 330 CRAY X-MP, is close by; and not too many miles away is NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where a four-processor CRAY X-MP system is installed. Our Bill Wilkinson’s little daughter, Jessie, age 6!, attended the grade school that was destroyed. She was in the group of children still in the building in an extended day program. Two women in charge herded the thirty kids into a small area beneath a stairwell, and all were safe. (There were 200 youngsters at the famous Space Camp, all of whom were OK, too.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, LAST WEEK’S ACTION,”On Friday a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, Serial 1025, was shipped to a Special Systems customer site. (A note says, “”system will ship without skins due to late color selection.”” They must be eager to get the computer–accepting it naked as it were.) Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP EA was replaced by another Cray system at the Renault Technical Center in Rueil Malmaison, and is now being reinstalled at a different customer site in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-30, FOUR SYSTEMS ACCEPTED OVERSEAS,”Serial 1408 CRAY Y-MP2 has been accepted by British Aerospace PLC (Public Limited Corporation) after a testing period of only 48 hours. Cray UK personnel will operate the system for British Aerospace at Bracknell. At Electricite de France in Clamart Serial 1021 CRAY Y-MP8 finished 30 days of testing with 100 percent availability and was accepted on November 25. Also in France, Serial 332 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation at the Renault Technical Center in Rueil Malmaison, has been accepted. Renault, a new customer, will purchase the system, and is our fifteenth automotive customer worldwide. A CRAY X-MP EA system, Serial 1109, has been accepted at VTKK in Finland.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-30, REINSTALLATION IN FRANCE,”Serial 2007 CRAY-2 supercomputer is being reinstalled at a Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique site, in Grenoble, to become part of CEANET, the communication network of the French Atomic Energy Commission. The CRAY-2 will be purchased and used for scientific research and development, complementing Cray systems at other CEA sites.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-30, TO SUNNY CALIFORNIA,”The San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, has received a CRAY Y-MP8 system, Serial 1026. Our news release of June 12 announced the purchase order from General Atomics, which operates the Center for the National Science Foundation: “”The system will be used for scientific computing in areas including computational chemistry, high-performance graphics, physics, and electrical engineering. SDSC also is implementing a worldclass scientific visualization center as an adjunct to the CRAY Y-MP system.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-30, TO WIN APPROVAL OF THE CUSTOMER,”Undergoing acceptance testing are Serial l022·CRAY Y-MP8 at the Army’s Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi; Serial 1504 CRAY Y-MP4 at General Motors in Michigan; Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP/l16se at Aerospatiale, Les Mureaux, France; Serial 418 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation at an Air Force base; and Serial 1024 CRAY Y-MP8 at a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-07, FOUR SYSTEMS ACCEPTED OVERSEAS,”Serial 1408 CRAY Y-MP2 has been accepted by British Aerospace PLC (Public Limited Corporation) after a testing period of only 48 hours. Cray UK personnel will operate the system for British Aerospace at Bracknell. At Electricite de France in Clamart Serial 1021 CRAY Y-MP8 finished 30 days of testing with 100 percent availability and was accepted on November 25. Also in France, Serial 332 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation at the Renault Technical Center in Rueil Malmaison, has been accepted. Renault, a new customer, will purchase the system, and is our fifteenth automotive customer worldwide. A CRAY X-MP EA system, Serial 1109, has been accepted at VTKK in Finland.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-07, REINSTALLATION IN FRANCE,”Serial 2007 CRAY-2 supercomputer is being reinstalled at a Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique site, in Grenoble, to become part of CEANET, the communication network of the French Atomic Energy Commission. The CRAY-2 will be purchased and used for scientific research and development, complementing Cray systems at other CEA sites.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-07, TO SUNNY CALIFORNIA,”The San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, has received a CRAY Y-MP8 system, Serial 1026. Our news release of June 12 announced the purchase order from General Atomics, which operates the Center for the National Science Foundation: “”The system will be used for scientific computing in areas including computational chemistry, high-performance graphics, physics, and electrical engineering. SDSC also is implementing a worldclass scientific visualization center as an adjunct to the CRAY Y-MP system.!!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-07, TO WIN APPROVAL OF THE CUSTOMER,”Undergoing acceptance testing are Serial 1022·CRAY Y-MP8 at the Army’s Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi; Serial 1504 CRAY Y-MP4 at General Motors in Michigan; Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP/l16se at Aerospatiale, Les Mureaux, France; Serial 418 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation at an Air Force base; and Serial 1024 CRAY Y-MP8 at a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-21, STAMP OF APPROVAL,”Serial 1501 CRAY Y-MP4, the seventh Cray computer system to be ordered by Electricite de France, was accepted at Clamart on December S. At another French customer site, Serial 1311 CRAY X-MP/116se was accepted after possibly the shortest testing period ever required–four hours. A reinstallation in Europe, Serial 116 CRAY X-MP system, was accepted almost immediately as well, with 100 percent availability to the Italian customer. Serial 1407 CRAY Y-MP2 was accepted by Lockheed’s Engineering R&D Center in Rye Canyon, California. The acceptance testing required for Serial 1023 CRAY Y-MPS, at another California site, was just 100 hours, accomplished with 100 percent availability, for the fifth system to be reported accepted.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-21, SYSTEMS IN TEST,”Testing for acceptance at a government installation started on December 7 for Serial 1025 CRAY Y-MPS system. Two CRAY-2 supercomputers have entered the acceptance stage: Serial 2007 at Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in Grenoble, France, and Serial 2022 at our first petroleum customer site in the Near East.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-21, TRAFFIC,Two supercomputers were shipped last week: Serial 1507 CRAY Y-MP4 system was delivered to a government site. Serial 1316 CRAY X-MP/116se went overseas to a new customer in a new country in the Orient.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-21, WOODBURNING STOVES,”The Mayo Clinic Health Letter for Decemb~r says these sources of indoor heat can be a health hazard–especially for children. “”Chest illnesses, especially upper respiratory infections, bronchitis and pneumonia, occurred in 39 percent of children whose homes had woodburning stoves–compared to 19 percent of those whose homes had other forms of heat. Woodburning stoves send a number of chemical pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide up the chimney …. even if your woodburning stove is properly vented, it can release varying levels of these substances into your home. . . Because they are still developing, the lungs and airways of youngsters are more susceptible to the harmful effects of these substances . . . Small children may spend long periods of time indoors during the winter, which maximizes their exposure … “” Tips for safe use: (1) Buy a stove with a certification label from the EPA, and have a professional install it. (2) Keep your fire hot. At a temperature of 300-500 0 F wood burns more thoroughly, reducing the amount of pollutants. Increase heat output by installing brick or stone behind and beneath stove. (3) Avoid smoky fires, which release more toxic chemicals. Inspect the stove and have the chimney cleaned regularly. (4) Buy or cut firewood 6-12 months before intended use. Hardwoods such as oak, maple, beech, ash and hickory make the best fuel. They burn more cleanly than softwoods such as fir or pine. Never use painted or treated wood, wood that contains glue or chemicals, trash or garbage, plastics, magazines, colored paper or gift wrap. Don’t use coal in a wood stove. Newspaper is fine. “”Remember that burns are another safety risk. If you have children, place a protective screen around a stove or in front of a fireplace.”” tory, a nest, or babies, I would , ~ defend them! But, in the dead of .. )j”” d. ~, winter, to deliberately attack a ~ ;. great big redtailed hawk–si tting I, a _ ~ …. ~ ~ p~acefully on a branch watch~ng the ~ ~ ~ _’ ?’~<~I”” THE NEW YORK.ER””Lights I Cameras I Christmas I”” CRAYCHIPS~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-11, ELEVEN MORE SYSTEMS WERE ACCEPTED BEFORE YEAR END,”Six of these were CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers. Serial 1019, just installed in the United Kingdom Meteorological Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, was accepted on briefest performance test, one day. Serial 1020 was accepted at G.E. Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati after fifteen days of testing, and Serial 1024 and Serial 1025 at government facilities. At the San Diego Supercomputer Center Serial 1026 was accepted after a week’s testing. The director of SDSC said, TI ••• the CRAY Y-MP system, together with the new scientific visualization center, will significantly enhance the ability of SDSC’s users to lead the world in research accomplishments and high technology products.”” Our largest order ever came from Toshiba, which accepted Serial 1027 after 48 hours of testing. Serial 1313 CRAY X-MP/l16se system has been accepted with 100 percent availability to the customer during thirty days of testing at Aerospatiale in Les Mureaux, France, and will be leased. From our news release: “”The Cray system will be used mainly for fluid dynamics, structural analysis, and electromagnetics research and design. . . . Aerospatiale Space and Strategic Systems Division designs and manufactures satellites, ballistic missiles, and space vehicles, such as the European space plane Hermes, and the civil launcher Ariane.”” Three CRAY-2 systems were among those accepted, two of them in France: Serial 2007 at CEA in Grenoble and Serial 2027 at another government site. Serial 2022 was accepted at a foreign petroleum customer’s engineering center after fourteen days of testing. And, finally, acceptance of the reinstallation of Serial 418 CRAY X-MP at a U.S. Air Force base was accomplished.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-11, FIRST SHIPMENT OF THE YEAR,”The customer, again, is a French one. The system is Serial 315 CRAY X-MP, a reinstallation, shipped last Friday.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-25, TWO CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS SHIPPED,”Both systems were delivered to domestic sites, and both customers are of long standing. Serial 1030 CRAY Y-MP8 went to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration installation. Serial 1508 CRAY Y-MP4 is slated for petroleum exploration.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-08, A NUMBER OF SYSTEMS WERE SHIPPED,”Shipment of two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers and reinstallation of a large CRAY X-MP system were accomplished this past week. The CRAY Y-MP computer systems were delivered to existing customers at domestic sites: Serial 1028 CRAY Y-MP8 to an aircraft manufacturer’s computer center. CRAY Y-MP4 Serial 1509 is destined for petroleum exploration and technological research. Serial 229, a four-processor CRAY X-MP system, was delivered to Electricite de France in 1987. EDF received two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers within recent months, and Serial 229 has transferred to an existing automotive customer in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-08, AND THREE WERE ACCEPTED,”Serial 1316 CRAY X-MP system was accepted in Taiwan. From our news release on the Nationalist ROC order (1 remember when Taiwan was Formosa): “”The purchased system was installed at the university’s computer center in Taipei, Republic of China, during the first quarter of 1990. The university will use the system for computational support of scientific research projects there and at other universities and research institutes in the Republic of China, as well as to educate and train the country’s academic community in the use of supercomputer technology.”” A CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer, Serial 1507, was accepted on February 1 at a government site with 100 percent availability to the customer during testing. Mendota Heights accepted Serial 1101, a four-processor CRAY X-MP system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-08, IN ACCEPTANCE STAGE,”Undergoing acceptance testing is Serial 315 CRAY X-MP system, a reinstallation in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-15, A SYSTEM IN ACCEPTANCE,Serial 1307 CRAY X-MP computer system began its testing for acceptance by the governmental-type customer on February 7.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-15, TO THE LAND DOWN UNDER,”Last week Serial 1409 CRAY Y-MP2 supercomputer was shipped to a new customer in Melbourne, Australia.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, SECOND COMPUTER SYSTEM TO TOYOTA,”The Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan received a CRAY X-MP system in 1988. Now shipment has been made this week of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer to their headquarters in Aichi, to be used “”for computer-aided engineering applications related to automotive design and development, including structural analysis, crash simulation, aerodynamics analysis, and design optimization.”” The supercomputer, Serial 1031, wil~ be purchased.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, SYSTEM IN ACCEPTANCE,”Undergoing testing by the customer for acceptance is Serial 1030 CRAY Y-MP8 at a NASA facility, as of February 10. No problems reported.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, THE FIRST AND BEST,”In grade school, I didn’t believe anything we were taught about George Washington. The wooden teeth were as unlikely as the cherry tree bit. Now, with knowledge of the record of his character and achievements, I am prepared to believe almost anything about this noble man. George Washington was born 258 years ago today in Virginia, and was educated by private tutors. He was a surveyor and a planter before becoming Commander in Chief of the First Continental Army and the First President of the United States. That is the title he chose, though there were those who would have made him a king. With a lesser person, the great experiment might have failed. President Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789. He had to borrow lOOney for the cost of the trip fran Mount Vernon. The population of the United States was est:imated at 3,700,000 at the time. This flag of 1789 excludes Rhode Island, which did not ratify the Constitution until 1790. The states of Vennont, Kentucky, and Tennessee were admitted during Washington’s two terms of office. In 1790 Philadelphia was chosen the temporary Capital. The only president not to live in the White House, President Washington selected the site and approved the design by James Hoban, winner of the open architectural canpetition and $500. What Washington called the “”President I s House”” in the “”Federal City”” was not to be ready for occupancy until 1800. FranCONSTITUTIONquarterly, Fall/1988: “”All the electors in the first elections–1789 and 1792–agreed that George Washington was the only person for the presidency ••.. Among Washington’s great accomplishments were nurturing into being the beginnings of a cabinet system and helping to develop a strong and independent judiciary that would soon define and quantify the loose frrunework of the Constitution’s wording. He was able to do so because he was perceived as incorruptible and above the battle. . • • Such disinterested high-mindedness was never absolutely the case after Washington. II”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER ACCEPTED,”At a National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility, Serial 1030 CRAY Y-MP8 system was accepted after thirty days of testing with 100 percent availability to the customer during the test period.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, PRELIMINARY ORDEALS,”Two more CRAY Y-MP and one CRAY-2 supercomputer are undergoing testing for acceptance. Although customers’ expectations are high, Cray Research computers consistently exceed them. Testing of Serial 1409 CRAY Y-MP2 began on March 10, and Serial 2026 CRAY-2, March 14. Serial 1509 CRAY Y-MP4, delivereq to the ARCO Oil and Gas Company’s computer center in Plano, Texas, has been under test since March 7. The system, worth $11.5 million, will be leased.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, SHIPMENT TO TEXAS,”Serial 435 CRAY X-MP computer system is being reinstalled at a leading international geophysical company’s Houston site. The customer, which already has one Cray Research system there as well as in its computer center in a suburb of Paris, offers oil exploration and processing services in more than fifty countries worldwide.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, AND ONE MORE,Serial 2026 CRAY-2 supercomputer was accepted at an English government installation after three days of testing.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, IN PROCESS,”Testing of three more CRAY Y-MP systems has started: Serial 1031 CRAY Y-MP, second Cray Research supercomputer at Toyota; Serial 1029 CRAY Y-MP8 at the NOAA Met Center in Maryland; and Serial 1510 CRAY Y-MP4 at the West German weather service DWD.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, IN THE SOUTHLAND,”Florida State University in Tallahassee is the site at which Serial 1513 CRAYY-MP4/432supercomputer is presently being installed. The system will also be used by the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute. The second shipment made last week was of a pre-owned CRAY X-MP computer system, Serial 432, to a new Canadian customer. Another CRAY X-MP system, Serial 1315, was shipped for reinstallation at a government facility.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, TWO IN A ROW,”CRAY Y-MP4 systems 1508 and 1509, both at U.S. petroleum sites, have been accepted after very brief periods of testing by the customers. Serial 1508 required only 48 hours at 100 percent to be given the nod–no problem. Seven days at 90 percent was all that was asked of Serial 1509, but it sailed through at 100 per also.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-05, A FIRST,”A significant accomplishment, production of an eight-processor CRAY-2 supercomputer, was demonstrated last week with the shipment of Serial 2101 to a durable old customer in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-05, FOUR ACCEPTANCES REGISTERED,”Two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers and two reinstallations of CRAY X-MP systems were accepted recently by their respective customers. In Canberra, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia approved Serial 1409 CRAY Y-MP2/216 in just ten days with 100 percent availability to CSIRO during that time. The U.S. air business customer of Serial 1028 CRAY Y-MP8 gave the OK on March 21. The French government system, Serial 315 CRAY X-MP, was finally accepted after sixty days of testing at 100 percent all the way. Also in France, Serial 229 CRAY X-MP system was accepted March 22 at an automotive-related site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, ANOTHER SUPERCOMPUTER TO NOAA,”The second eight-processor CRAY Y-MP system ordered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was shipped to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, last week. Serial 1035 and Serial 1029, shipped earlier, will be purchased for about $44 million. From our news release of February 12: “”The GFDL applies supercanputer modeling to atmospheric and oceanic research. The laboratory is involved in long lead-t~ investigations in clBnate dynamics and weather forecasting. ‘The new Cray Research systan will be used to further research in atmospheric and oceanic studies in such areas as global warming and ozone depletion. The systan will also be used to develop the next generation of forecasting models,’ said Jerry Mahlman, director of the GFDL. Supercomputers are necessary for these models because of the numerically intensive nature of the problems. The new Cray Research supercanputer will provide the GIDL with a ten-fold increase in canputer power.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, SHIPMENT OF CRAY X-MP SYSTEM,”Serial 1209, two-processor CRAY X-MP computer system, is being reinstalled at a site in the United Arab Emirates–a customer of many years’ standing- replacing a four-year-old one-processor CRAY X-MP system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, Another Weather System OK’d,”Across the sea in Germany, a four-processor 32-million-word memory CRAY Y-MP supercomputer, Serial 1510, was accepted by the West German weather service, Deutscher Wetterdienst, in Offenbach. The system performed with 100 percent availability to the customer during thirty days of testing. Two CRAY X-MP systems complete the approval list. Serial 1304 CRAY X-MP EA also maintained 100 percent availability to its French customer during acceptance testing. Serial 432 CRAY X-MP is a reinstallation in Canada which was accepted on April 22.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, FOUR MORE SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”This, too, is gratifying news to report. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has accepted their earlier installation, Serial 1029 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, at the Meteorological Center of the National Weather Service in Maryland.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, LAST CHANCE,”Tomorrow, May 4, is the last day to submit your 1989-90 stock purchase plan year decision and your 1990-91 enrollment form. None accepted after May 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, SHIPPING PARTY,”Engineering kisses Lou goodby, crowns him with a bottle of Leinenkugel’s and launches him into his Vice Presidency! Come to a party for Lou Saye at the Waters Edge after work today, Thursday, May 3. Pass the word.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, WE HAD A BIG WEEK,”Four computer shipments must have been a little bit of a challenge to our traffic department, but they seem to have handled it very well. The delivery to Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis is especially exciting as Lilly is our first pharmaceutical customer. The CRAY-2 computer system, Serial 2029, is valued at about $12 million. Our news release of April 12 said: “”Cray Research also announced that it and Lilly have formed a unique relationship to advance the use of supercomputers in pharmaceutical research. Experts in computational chemistry from both organizations will explore new methodologies in the application of supercomputers to drug discovery. . . . Lilly will use the CRAY-2 system to pursue applications in pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, and medical devices.”” It was nice to see Erv Bentley again when he was in Chippewa working on Serial 2029. Two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers went overseas. The larger system, Serial 1002 CRAY Y-MP8, was destined for reinstallation at a government laboratory in England. The other, Serial 1414 CRAY Y-MP2, is being installed at a government space research center in West Germany. The fourth shipment was a CRAY X-MP EA system, Serial 1207, delivered to an already existing domestic customer in the air industry.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-10, COMMISSION ON SCHOOLS ISSUE FORUM,”During May the Governor’s Commission on Schools for the 21st Century will hold open forums in nine Wisconsin cities. One of these forums will be held in Eau Claire Monday, May 14, from 4-8 pm at the Board of Education Meeting Room, 500 Main Street. The purpose of these hearings is to gather public opinion on how our children should be educated in the next century. Whereas Cray Research is especially concerned with math, science, and technology education, you are encouraged to take this opportunity to be heard. Each person is allowed five minutes for an oral presentation. Written test~ny and materials will also be accepted.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-10, NEW UNIVERSITY CUSTOMER,”The University of Nevada-Las Vegas has received shipment of Serial 1411 CRAY Y-MP216 supercomputer. The purchase order for the system worth about $7 million was announced last month. From our news release: “”UNLV intends to use the CRAY Y-MP system to create a world-class center for the study of radioactive waste management and other scientific problems of regional and national interest.”” Senator Harry Reid will attend ceremonies next weekend in honor of the supercomputer and remodeled engineering complex.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-10, RECYCLING IS FOR EVERYONE,”The subject has received intense scrutiny for the past couple of months, although many of our buildings have been practicing recycling for years. Some present procedures: °Proprietary information (Development collects other office paper also) is delivered to Pope & Talbot by our guards. °Most buildings have been separating aluminum soda cans for recycling. °The garbage collector had been removing cardboard and wood from dumpsters to reduce the amount going to the landfill. Now we have stopped putting these items in the dumpsters: All wood products, including wood pallets Construction demolition materials (Contractors may not use our dumpsters for disposal of building materials) Cardboard Metals Grass clippings Cray employees are welcome to the wood pallets and other scrap wood. It is usually outside near the dumpsters, but some is stored. Inquire of your building representative. Cardboard is shipped to Globe Manufacturing at Cornell, to make roofing felt material. We are using some also for packing material instead of new Cray Research shipping boxes. COnly the following waste products should go into the dumpsters: Lunchroom and rest-room garbage Plastics Unreusable magazines and other non-recyclable paper Cray Research, Chippewa Falls, spent nearly $50,000 for garbage disposal in 1989. The first three months of this year averaged $5000 per month. With everyone’s help, we will cut this in half. The next big effort is to recycle all the office paper possible. Each building has its plan. These are some of the employees who have been involved in setting up procedures: Kevin Printz, Len Cesafsky, Dave Joppru, Jay LaBonte, Chris Gordon, Jeff Rowan, Tom Joas, Julie Dunn, Dan Shuda, Tim Ryan, Ellen Siddons, and Scott Armstrong.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, A Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER ACCEPTED,Serial 1513 CRAYY-MP4/432computer system at Florida State University in Tallahassee was accepted May 4.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, ON TRIAL,Testing for customer acceptance of two CRAY X-MP EA systems began the end of April: Serial 1209 at a Near Eastern site and Serial 1310 in Japan. Each is involved in a fifteen-day testing period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, SYSTEM MOVES,”During the past week shipment was made of a CRAY Y-MP supercomputer and two CRAY X-MP systems to be reinstalled. Serial 1514 CRAY Y-MP4 was delivered to a u.S. petroleum company in Texas. Serial 402, a dual-processor CRAY X-MP system, was transferred from an old French customer’s site to a new French customer’s site. A single-processor CRAYX-MP, Serial 331, leased to NCAR last year, has now gone to a NASA installation.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, NO. 5 FOR NCAR?,”Last week an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP system, Serial 1036, was delivered to our second customer in all the world, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. From our news release: “”‘Our supercanputers are the only systems available today which can accommodate the enormous environmental models run at institutions such as NCAR,’ said Rollwagen. • •. ‘The new CRAY Y-MP system will enable us to undertake s~ations that would be ~ssible without it, especially in research to improve our understanding of global warming,’ said Bill Buzbee, Director of NCAR’s Scientific Canputing Division. NCAR has been in the forefront of the debate about the “”greenhouse effect'”” . • • Last November, NCAR canputational research scientist Bob Chervin along with Dr. Albert Semtner, Jr., from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., were presented with a Cray Research Gigaflop Performance Award for their global ocean model. By modifying their program to run in parallel on all eight processors of the CRAY Y-MP system in Cray Research’s Mendota Heights, Minn., facility, the researchers were able to achieve a speed of 1.125 billion calculations per second, or 1.125 gigaflops.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, SEVERAL SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”The spacy West German customer of Serial 1414 CRAY Y-MP2 took only three days to register approval; acceptance testing of the supercomputer started May 8 and finished on May ll–at 100 per. A similar situation obtained for Serial 1315 CRAY X-MP EA. Word was received from the government site that testing of the system began April 9. It was accepted on April 14, with 100 percent availability during that period and during the remainder of the 30 days of testing required to satisfy our own technical standards. Another CRAY X-MP EA system, Serial 1209, was accepted on May 6 at a customer site in the United Arab Emirates.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, ACCEPTED,”In Japan,Serial 1310 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer was accepted on May 13, with 100 percent availability to the customer during the l5-day testing period.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, ANOTHER ONE,”Shipment was made last week of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, Serial 1034, to our oldest and best customer in the U.S. In Europe, Serial 223 CRAY X-MP system left CINECA in Italy to be reinstalled at a French site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, SOON TO BE,”Testing for acceptance by the customers began the middle of May for three systems: The second NOAA supercomputer, Serial 1035, at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton; Serial 2029 CRAY-2 system at the Eli Lilly site, a 14-day testing period; and in the UK, Serial 1002 CRAY Y-MP8, for 21 days.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-07, SYSTEMS IN ACCEPTANCE,”Acceptance testing of two CRAY X-MP reinstallations is underway, in France for Serial 402, two-processor system, and Serial 331 at a NASA site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-07, Y-MP TO UK,”Shipment of Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer to the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts this week marks fourteen years of association with our first European customer. ECMWF came into being on November 1, 1975. The cooperative venture had fifteen member nations initially; now grown to eighteen. A letter dated 9th March, 1976, to Seymour from J. LaBrousse, Head of Operations, Bracknell, England, says: “”We are planning to issue our request for proposal for the systan in the middle of this year and we would like to make contact with a representative of your company in order to exchange ideas and information on configurations, front-ends and other sub-systans, as well as the associated operating systan interfaces.”” The result was ECMWF’s acquisition of Serial 1 CRAY-IB system, with half a million words of memory, late in 1977. Serial 1, first shipped to Los Alamos in March 1976, was replaced at LASL by Serial 4 CRAY-IA, which added SECDED (single error correction, double error detection). Serial 1, interim to Serial 9 CRAY-IA delivered to ECMWF in 1978, was still going strong when it was retired last year for the Museum. (Forty-five cartons of miscellaneous equipment accompanied Serial 1 to ECMWF, including computer stuff like a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, and pocket knife~-no Leinie’s.) For comparison, Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer has eight processors and 64-million words of memory. Several Cray Research computer systems have been installed at ECMWF over the years. It is gratifying to be chosen once again, over stiff competition.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, A NUMBER OF SYSTEMS WERE ACCEPTED,”At Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Serial 2029 CRAY-2 supercomputer, delivered in May, has been accepted and is hard at work on pharmaceutical research related to the fields of agriculture as well as medicine. Sixty days of testing by the customers was required of Serial 1512 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer at a government site and a reinstalled Serial 435 CRAY X-MP system at a petroleum site. Both have been accepted, Serial 1512 with 100 percent availability to the customer during those sixty days. Serial 1207 CRAY X-MP EA system was accepted by the air industry customer practically on delivery last month, but the computer will undergo hardware and software tests prescribed by our people before releasing the system to the customer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, ANOTHER WISCONSIN ASTRONAUT,”Captain Daniel Brandenstein, USN, is from Watertown, and is Chief of the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The WEPI arm of the Cray Research Foundation invited Captain Brandenstein to speak at an appreciation luncheon for our industry and education partners in the Cray Academy. His acceptance was conditional on the shuttle launch schedule, but happily he was able to make it last Thursday. It was quite a large group that enjoyed the lunch (including space spaghetti salad) at the Middle School and the astronaut’s wonderful, exclusive space slides and talk. Besides inspiring awe, the Captain has the ability to make the magnitude of the journey to the great beyond comprehensible even to such as you and me. He stressed the team effort required in a shuttle launch–the importance of all the people on the ground–those who saw that the paperwork was flawless and the clean rooms pristine. Captain Brandenstein praised our efforts in the field of education. He reinforced the emphasis on improved math, science, and technology programs for future scientists and astronauts. He is concerned about the environment, revealing in the slides how narrow is the band of atmosphere. The astronaut’s most recent mission, with four other “”mission specialists””–two of them women–was from January 9-20, the longest shuttle flight to date. In response to a question about a space station, Captain Brandenstein said it is planned to send up the first elements via shuttle in 1995; the goal, a manned space station in the year 2000. He commented it would take a year to travel to Mars.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, BEING PUT THROUGH ITS PACES,”Serial 1036 CRAY Y-MP8 is undergoing pre-acceptance testing procedures at NCAR, as of June 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, REINSTALL,”Serial 502 CRAY X-MP/14se system has transferred from Aerospatiale in Toulouse, where it was installed late in 1987, to a new French customer site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, A NEW NASA SITE,”The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center is the sixth NASA site to acquire a Cray Research supercomputer. Last week Serial 1037 CRAYY-MP8/432system was shipped to Goddard’s Space and Earth Sciences Computing Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The order from NASA for two CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers worth almost $35 million was announced in February. The Lewis Research Center in Cleveland is to receive its CRAYY-MP8/464system shortly. From our news release: ·””Goddard will use its new supercanputer in areas such as global warming, earth observing systems, space physics, astronomy and solar physics, and terrestrial and ocean modeling. One significant use will be by scientists working on geodynamic earth surface models. Goddard is responsible for taking the lead on NASA’s global change studies. ff”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, CLEARED THE HURDLES,”Serial 1002 CRAY Y-MPB supercomputer has been accepted at a government establishment in England, on June 4, after 21 days of stringent testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, OUR LITTLE ONES,”From Site Engineering: daughters born to Jay and Sharon Young on May 26, Katie Marie; and Ron and Glenda Rablin, Shantel Marie, on June 6. From the Runkel Building comes the report of a baby girl, Emily Jane, being born to Dan and Jill Mattison on June 13. Congratulations!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-28, PART TWO,”,… The second supercomputer on the order from NASA announced February 22 was destined for the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. And that’s where Serial 1040 CRAY Y-MP8 system was delivered last week. Quoting from the news release: “”Dr. John Adamczyk, NASA Senior Aerospace Scientist at Lewis, said, ‘The turbomachinery of a modern jet engine contains one of the most complex flow fields of engineering interest. The CRAY Y-MP system makes it possible to conduct three-d~nsional s~lations to uncover the flow physics that control the perfoTImance of -these components. The simulations, canbined with an experimental flow physics program, are bringing about a revolutionary change in the design of turbanachinery in the foreseeable future.'”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-28, THREE CRAY Y-MP8 SUPERCOMPUTERS ACCEPTED,”Serial 1035 at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jerse~ a NOAA site, on June 13, with 100 percent availability; Serial 1036, which has been undergoing testing for acceptance for just fourteen days at NCAR, on June 17, also providing the customer 100 percent; Serial 1032, eight-processor system at AWE in England. From our news release of March 1: “”A Ministry of Defense spokesnan said, ‘The Cray Research systEmS at Aldennaston have become a cornerstone for our work here, and we are all very excited by the leading edge R&D environment the new CRAY Y -MP will offer our scientists.'”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-28, THREE UNDER FIRE,”Serial 1514 CRAY Y-MP4 system began acceptance testing at a domestic oil industry site on June 14. Two are reinstallations in France: Serial 502 CRAY X-MP/14se, June 7; and Serial 223, four-processor CRAY X-MP, on June 15.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, TO THE LAND OF WONDER,”””The Land Down Under”” is where Serial 503 CRAY X-MP system was shipped last week for reinstallation.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, TWO SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”Both were available to their U.S. customers during the entire testing period. Serial 1034 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was accepted after only seven days; our reputation goes way back with this customer. Serial 331 CRAY X-MP system, accepted on June 24, had cumulative MTTI of 712.5 hours at that point.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-12, BEGINNING ACCEPTANCE,Acceptance testing has begun for two systems: Serial 2101 CRAY-2 eightprocessor supercomputer at an old California customer site and Serial 1411 CRAY Y-MP216 system at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, A CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTER SHIPPED,”The customer is an international geophysical company, native to France, offering oil exploration and processing services in more than fifty countries. It has Cray Research computers in several of them, including the United States, France, and England. Last week’s shipment of Serial 1519 CRAY Y-MP4 went to a suburb of Paris.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, A SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”Serial 502 CRAY X-MP/14se system, a reinstallation at a new customer site in France, was accepted on July 6.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, ACCEPTANCE TESTING,”Two top-of-the-line CRAY Y-MP supercomputers are in process of being tested for acceptance. Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP8 system at ECMWF in England started its rigors on July 2. On July 10 at NASA-Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland, Serial 1037 CRAY Y-MP8 began its command performance.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-02, CRAY X-MP SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”A reinstalled dual-processor CRAY X-MP system, Serial 402, has been accepted in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-02, TWO BIG ONES,”Serial numbers in a row: During the past week Serial 1041 and Serial 1042 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers left the loading dock, both for delivery to customers who already have Cray Research systems but want more. Serial 1041 went overseas to Japan, and Serial 1042 is being installed at one of the national labs in the Southwest.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, ACCEPTANCE RUNS,”Into the acceptance testing phase is Serial 1040 CRAY Y-MP8 computer system at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, the second system on NASA’s order of last winter. Also begining, on July 30, the final phase before full customer approval is CRAY Y-MP4 Serial 1519, at a French petroleum facility.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, ACROSS THE BLUE PACIFIC,”Shipment was made this week of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, Serial 1043, to an auto industry customer in Japan, their third Cray Research system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, THE SYMBOL IS THE LONE OAK,”Here is a preview of what you will see when you visit Cray Research Park in Eagan, Minnesota, for the celebration on September 22. Taking Lone Oak Drive off Lone Oak Road is just a pleasant drive through the Minnesota countryside, until–you’re in the Loire Valley in France with one of the great chateaux before you! It looks like a palace with a moat! But the moat is really the “”pond,”” with about fifty Canadian honkers on the shore. The palace is four several-storied structures built around atriums and into the hillside on various levels, all connected by enclosed and skylighted passages. The address is 655 Lone Oak Drive, and the buildings are designated A, D, E, and F (B and C are yet to come). Eventually all Minnesota operations will be housed in Cray Research Park. The buildings are not segregated by department, but have a nice mix for interaction. Software Training and the executive floor are in Building A. CCN (Corporate Computing and Networks) is in E (perhaps the greatest concentration of computer power in the world?). Building F has Software, Tech Ops, and Marketing Support. The commons is in Building D, a wonderful place. It fronts the pond, has a skylight and pergola, and a meadow on the side. The dining rooms seat 400 (there are two private ones). The “”Off-Line Cafe”” was the winner in a contest to name the dining area. There is full food service, and a lounge with a fireplace! Many lounges and relaxing-thinking areas exist throughout the complex. I won’t even try to describe the beautiful furnishings and striking and harmonious color schemes. You’ll just have to see for yourself. Sherry Buckley met me last Saturday at the “”second staircase up from the parking lot, by the big blue sign,”” and gave me a really grand tour. Ground for the facilities was broken in January 1989, and from May of last year until recently, Sherry, Jim Liska, and Eric Lindahl oversaw all aspects of the construction from a trailer parked on the site. (Mick Oyer of Software, his wife, and child were also visiting. All employees are welcome.) True to tradition, there was a Bunn coffeemaker, and true to tradition, the heat was still turned on under an almost empty pot! Bunn to the rescue- just like in Chippewa Falls.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-16, A TRIO OF ACCEPTANCES,”In Reading, Berkshire, England, Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer system has been accepted–with 100 percent availability during testing–by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. ECMWF comprises eighteen member nations: Belgium, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Spain, UK, France, Greece, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Turkey, Italy, and Norway. At the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Serial 1411 CRAY Y-MP2 computer system has been accepted. Quoting Dr. John Unrue, Senior Vice President and Provost of UNLV: “”Few events in the history of UNLV have expanded our scientific potential so significantly. The supercomputer’s positive effect on our research, faculty development, and recruitment of outstanding new faculty cannot be overstated.”” The system was purchased. The third system accepted was the eight-processor CRAY-2 supercomputer, Serial 2101, at a national laboratory in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-30, PRE-ACCEPTANCE,The CRAY Y-MP2 at the Daihatsu Motor Corporation in Osaka is into the final testing phase before customer acceptance. Required is 15 days at 99 percent.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-30, SHIPMENT OF TWO CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS,”In July we announced the sale of “”two computer systems worth about $45 million to two new U.S. government customers.”” The customers are the Naval Oceanography Command and the Eglin U.S. Air Force Base. The order for the Air Force system was received from Advanced Integrated Technology, prime contractor for Eglin AFB in Fort Walton, Florida. A CRAY Y-MP8/2 supercomputer with 128 million words of memory was shipped this week, to be used for computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis research. (The Navy system will be installed in the fourth quarter.) From the Chippewa Herald-Telegram of July 25: “”‘The Air Force and the Navy needed high-powered supercomputer systems and they found what they were looking for right here in Wisconsin,’ said U.S. Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin, chair’man of the House Armed Services Commi ttee. “” The second delivery this week was to the Du Pont Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. This order was announced in March, for lease of a CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer worth about $13.5 million. Du Pont was our first chemical industry customer, and this is their third Cray Research system. From our news release: “”Du Pont uses supercomputing for design and analysis of its manufacturing facilities and processes, new product development, and environmental studies. ‘Computation science provides value across our diverse businesses and technologies,’ said Henry P. Morneau, Director of Scientific Computing in Du Pont’s Central Research & Development Department. ‘The new CRAY Y-MP system will enable us to continue serving the growing numerical simulation needs of our scientists and engineers who support our businesses.'”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-06, THREE SYSTEMS WERE ACCEPTED,”All were CRAY Y-MP supercomputers: a CRAY Y-MP8 at NASA Lewis in Ohio, a four-processor 64-million-word-memory system, with 100 percent customer availability during testing; another CRAY Y-MP8 at a national laboratory, after only seven days of wringing out; and a CRAY Y-MP4 at another French customer site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-06, VIVE LA FRANCE,”The shipment last week of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was the seventh Cray Research system to be acquired by one French government agency, for various locations within the country. The first was in 1982, and the list includes two CRAY-ls, three CRAY X-MPs, and a CRAY-2 system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-13, CRAY IN SAUDI,”Concern about our people at the Saudi ARAMCO site in Dhahran elicited this response from Phil Dixon, UK Field Engineering Manager, on September 7: “”What can I tell you about the last month? It’s been busy. On August 2. when Saddam decided to extend his garden, Lonnie (Manning) and Rick (Swirtz) were on vacation (John Adams, UK, and Ed Barnard were on site), and we had a leave replacement, Nick Morss (UK), out there. . • Nick and the families were evacuated straight away, the advice from the State Department and UK Foreign Office being non-essentials and dependants should stay clear until the picture clarifies. Since then Ed and John have been relieved by Lonnie and Rick to give them a chance to go home and sort out their families in apartments, etc. If the uncertainty continues, the intention is to cycle the guys around to give them a chance to be with their families, all of whom are now in apartments provided by Cray.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-13, IN JAPAN,”Two CRAY Y-MP supercomputers have been accepted at automobile manufacturers in Japan, a CRAY Y-MP8 on August 27 and a CRAY Y-MP2 on August 30. The first was accepted without a formal testing period. Requirement for the second, at Daihatsu Motor Corporation, was 15 days at 99 percent; the system performed at 100 per. Another CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, at another automotive concern in Japan, began testing for acceptance August 27. A reinstalled CRAY X-MP system started a 10-day acceptance period at a U.S. customer site on September 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-20, MOSTLY ABOUT ABBREVIATIONS,”Years ago Seymour and I decided to spell programmer with only one m- programer–but gave up in the overwhelming preference for two m’s. For years I have been promoting 2d instead of 2nd and 3d instead of 3rd- without attracting a following. Also Av., instead of Ave. Use of the single initial letter for north, south, east, and west, instead of No., So., etc., seems to have caught on. It would be well to adopt generally the 2-letter zip code abbreviations for the states and 3-letter abbreviations for months. It is only reasonable that if one is to use an abbreviation, the most abbreviated is the best. (Eliminate the word or abbreviation for “”number”” before a number in a sentence unless it can cause confusion.) Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1987, advocates dropping almost all periods from abbreviations, but notes “”there, is considerable variation in the use of periods and in capitalization.”” Seymour favored the no-period usage, as in Mr, for example, but it has not become widely accepted. My father used what seems to me a really weird form of abbreviation. His name was John, and he sometimes wrote it “”Jno.”” Apparently that oldfashioned form is still acceptable, but I fail to see the logic in it.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-20, SEVENTY-FIVE BIG ONES,”We have shipped 75 CRAY Y-MP supercomputers. That’s a lot for a new product in just two years’ time. For comparison, we built and sold just 56 CRAY-l computer systems, and customer shipments occurred over a seven-year period, from 1976 to 1983. By far the greater number of CRAY Y-MP supercomputer shipments have been of the biggest and the best, the CRAY Y-MP8 systems. Last week another CRAY Y-MP8 went to an old customer, a national lab in the southwest.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, BEGINNING ACCEPTANCE,”Two CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers began the pre-acceptance testing stage, one at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, on September 14 for 30 days, and the other at a French government facility.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, CRAY X-MP SYSTEM SHIPPED,A single-processor CRAY X-MP computer system was shipped last week for reinstallation at an old California customer’s site. The system is one originally purchased by the Ford Motor Company in 1985.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, INDUSTRY AWARENESS DAY,”It was September 20, a project of the Chippewa Falls Chamber of Commerce. Les Davis was the principal speaker at a luncheon at the Fill-Inn to begin the event. He gave a whirlwind history of Cray Research, our community impact and involvement, and foreign competition. Members of the business community were in attendance and a number of our people including Marc Harding, Jeff C~osby, Jim Berry, Steve Ashley, Lou Saye, Bob Tillma, Dennis Aney, Loni Meinen, Gordon Lindsay, and Bill Cunningham. Numerous educational exhibits were set up in the Ice Arena–from Leinie’s and Mason Shoe to the Post Office and Herald-Telegram–for the benefit of the community, all members of which were invited. Cray Research’s display featured our computer on wheels, the CRAY XMS, Serial 7, as well as descriptive pictures, posters, and pamphlets. Among employees who worked on the exhibit were Terry McDougall, Tim Ryan, Marc Harding, and Donna Berdal. On hand to explain and instruct when I “”took in the show”” were Hank Erickson, Mickey Caskinette, Gene Geissler, and Jeff Crosby. Buses of school children had arrived earlier; the kids gave the enterprise an “”A.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, OH NO  NOT TO THE ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD,”The last CRAY-IA computer system, Serial 11, was powered down in the UK in July and will be retired tomorrow, September 28, reports Gary Purvis and Gary Shorrel. This system was sh~pped to the British weapons laboratory at Aldermaston, England, in February 1979 and has been in service at the same site for these over eleven years. Fourteen Chippewa people were cleared for this important installation, the third in the UK. A Cray Research news release of March 1 this year said, ‘This early CRAY-l system still has the power to outperform its rivals, but it is being retired because of age.'”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-04, FIRST CRAY Y-MP2E SHIPMENT,”Our new product, announced in May, is truly an economy model at only $2+ million and with the power of our former l400-series CRAY Y-MP computer systems. A great advantage to customers is the choice of air or water cooling. A U.S. government facility immediately recognized the value of this new machine and ordered the system that was shipped last week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-04, ONE ACCEPTANCE,A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was accepted by the Japanese customer shortly after delivery with no formal testing period; our own technical acceptance standards were satisfied on September 26.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-04, PRESTIGE SHIPMENT,”””Oh, to own a Rolls!”” Well, Rolls-Royce pIc is happy to lease a CRAY. A CRAYY-MP4/216supercomputer was shipped to this leading international aero engine manufacturer in Derby, England, this past week. Two CRAY X-MP computer systems were delivered to U.S. customers, to make a total of four shipments for the week: a CRAY X-MPEA/2to a Department of Energy site and an older-model four-processor CRAY X-MP for reinstallation at a petroleum site in Texas. Both are established customers.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-11, A PARTY,”The First Annual Chippewa Valley Technical College Alumni Mixer will be held Saturday, October 20. Take the campus tour at 2 pm; then join the party at Jericho’s in Eau Claire from 4,to 7o·clock. CVTC is proud of its over 400 graduates working for Cray Research. For more information and/or to register, call Linda Frank, 833-6479. The Y_Mll also 1,-(( ils own spedal “”{“”<ike prinl”” ut NC:R llS part o( the Y-lIJl m:ccl)tanC.:c p.U-ly. CRAY CHIPS~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn ACCEPTED …. A reinstalled CRAY X-MP system at a NASA site, with 100 percent availability to the customer during month-long testing. …. The CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer shipped recently to E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. started a thirty-day pre-acceptance testing period on September 28.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-11, FROM SCD COMPUTING NEWS,”””Shavano,”” without a capital s, is what the National Center for Atmospheric Research has named its CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. The Scientific Computing Division NEWS for July/August devotes most of its fifty pages to the Y-MP: “”The cover graphic shows the characteristic V-shaped configuration of shavano, NCAR I S new CRAY Y-MP8/864. Its footprint resembles the mythical thunderbird with outstretched wings. “”I t ‘s pretty easy to spot the arrival of a Cray. An engineering feat in i tsel f, it takes two cannercial moving vans, a crane, plus a pack of brawny workers fran Duffy Crane and Hauling to hoist and lower all five tons of it through an opening in the roof into the computer roam of the Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado ••.. sen Operations Group head Bob Niffenegger donned his satin Cray baseball jacket and cap for good luck • • • Sally Haerer, SCI) I S Consulting Group head, showed up for work wearing her camera and a telephoto lens. ‘I used to work for Cray, but I never saw one of these things delivered,’ she explained . . • The CRAY Y-MP8/864 is what canputer pundits call ‘big iron ‘–the top-of-theline model fram Cray Research, Inc., who manufacture the majority of the “”Norld’s supercomputers. . . . A peak performance rate of over one billion floating-point operations per second has been measured on one of NCAR’s ocean climate models when all eight processors were operating in parallel.”” The Software News section featured: “”CRAYFISHPAK, a vectorized library with the Helrnholz equation-solving functionality of FISHPAK, is now available on shavano.”” Th’e Y-MP is up and running! Cray Research, Inc., treated NCAR staff to a party in celebration of the Y-MP’s acceptance. SCD director Bill Buzbee (right) cuts some cake for Diana Wright, the NCAR on-site analyst from eray; Mike Wilhelm, vice president of Cray Americas; and Rick Hill, the Cray account manager. (Photo by Bob Bumpas.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, ACCEPTED,”At the same national lab mentioned above, an earlier installation of a CRAY Y-MP8 system was accepted on October 1 after only seven days of performance testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, SHIPMENT LOST,”Equipment from Marshall Industries, Purchase Order 216773, delivered on August 20, is missing; last seen on its way to Development. The requestor’s name, Arendt, should be written on the box, which contains three display units costing $800 each. Please contact Kelly Lea in Engineering, extension 1247, or Barb Arendt, 1333.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, TWO CRAY Y-MP SUPERCOMPUTERS SHIPPED STATESIDE,Last week’s deliveries were of a CRAY Y-MP8 computer system to a national laboratory and a CRAY Y-MP4 system to a university computer center. Both customers are of long standing.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-25, ACCEPTANCE,”The CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at the Eglin Air Force Base, referred to above, was accepted on October 14 after thirty days of customer testing. A CRAY X-MP system recently reinstalled at a California site was accepted on October 2 after benchmark testing only.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-25, BEING PUT THROUGH THE PACES,”Two systems are being put to the tests for acceptance: beginning October 15, the first CRAY Y-MP2E shipped to a customer and, as of October 11, a CRAY X-MP EA system, both U.S. Government sites.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-25, FIVE CUSTOMER SHIPMENTS,”Orders from the military for the purchase of two CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers were announced in July. In August we shipped a CRAY Y-MP8/2 computer system to the Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton, Florida. Now a CRAY Y-MP8/8 system, worth about $27 million, has been delivered to the Naval Oceanography Command in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Grumman Data Systems is the prime contractor on the Navy order. The system will be used in the development and operational use of global oceanographic and meteorological models. The Kia Motors Corporation of the Republic of South Korea ordered a CRAY Y-MP4/116 supercomputer to be installed the fourth quarter of this year. The system was shipped last week to Seoul, the second sale of a Cray Research computer system to a Korean customer. A CRAY-2 system was purchased by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also in Seoul, in 1988. The CRAY Y-MP4 system will be used by Kia Motors for automotive design. Another CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was delivered to a NASA installation. We have now built fifty of our most powerful, the CRAY Y-MP8 computer systems. A CRAY Y-MP4 system was shipped to an international multi-industry company site in California and a CRAY Y-MP2 system to the computer center of a German geophysical services concern.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-01, SYSTEM SHIPMENT,A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was shipped last week to an already existing university customer’s research center in the southwest U.S.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-08, A VARIETY OF SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”The first CRAY Y-MP2E customer shipment. Government customer accepted without conventional pre-acceptance testing requirement. A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at a French government site, on October 24. A CRAY Y-MP4 system at the du Pont Company’s Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware, on October 28; with 100 percent availability to the customer during acceptance testing. A CRAY Y-MP4 system at Rolls-Royce pIc in England, on October 24, after only two days of trials.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-08, BEING TRIED,”A seven-day acceptance testing period is all that’s required of a Y-MP8 supercomputer at one of the government labs, beginning October 25. A CRAY Y-MP4 system, at a U.S. university site, began a ten-day testing period on October 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-21, SHIPMENT TO E~XON,”Last week a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer worth about $15 million was delivered to Exxon Corporation’s technical computing center in Houston, Texas. Quoting our news release of August 13, the center “”provides technical computing services for all Exxon Upstream organizations throughout the world. Exxon’s principal applications for the CRAY Y-MP8 system include reservoir modeling, seismic processing, and finite element analysis.”” John R. noted, “”It is the first CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer to be used in the petroleum industry.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-29, AND THREE ACCEPTANCES,”A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was accepted at one of the national labs on November 1, with 100 percent availability to the customer during testing. A CRAY Y-MP4 system met all customer requirements at another university site, with no interruptions during final testing, and was accepted on November 3. A CRAY X-MP EA system, at a Department of Energy installation on the West Coast, was accepted on November 10–also at 100 per.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-29, THE LAST LAP,”A number of systems have been added to those undergoing pre-acceptance customer testing in the U.S.: a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at a southwestern university installation; a CRAY Y-MP4 system in California; and a CRAY X-MP reinstalled system at a petroleum site. In Europe, a German geophysical services company began testing of a CRAY Y-MP2 computer system preliminary to acceptance.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-29, THREE SHIPMENTS,”A shipment of our largest system, the CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, was made this week to Tohoku University, Miyagi-ken, Japan. The mainframe and peripheral equipment, worth $20 million, are being installed in the Institute of Fluid Science. The system will be leased by this new customer, also the first Japanese public university customer, and used for the academic research and development of computational fluid science, which involves the use of computers to simulate and solve problems concerning fluids, gases, etc. The second shipment this week was to a new customer in Netherlands. The system was a CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer. A used CRAY X-MP computer system was shipped last week for reinstallation at a new university customer site in the southern U.S. The two-processor system was first purchased by Daimler-Benz AG in 1987.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, APPROVED,”A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was accepted at a Texas site on November 13, with 100 percent availability to the customer during the pre-acceptance testing period. A week’s testing, only, was required.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, JETS SHIP,”The first shipment of a “”JET,”” the CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer, to a customer happened last week. The CRAY Y-MP2E system may be either air or water cooled. The customer is a branch of the U.S. military. In the same shipment this military installation received delivery of a CRAY X-MP EA system. A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer made the third computer system to leave us last week, headed for an old customer, one of the national labs. The second “”JET”” system was shipped early this week to one of the country’s major automakers, a customer already leasing a CRAY X-MP computer system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, ON THE WAY,The CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer shipped to the Kia Motors Corporation in South Korea in late October is undergoing thirty days of technical performance testing. A CRAY Y-MP8 system at a NASA site is also involved in a thirtyday pre-acceptance testing period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-13, ALMOST DONE,The reinstalled CRAY X-MP computer system at an old petroleum customer’s site in Texas should by now have almost satisfied our own stringent standards for technical acceptance.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-13, SHIPPED THIS WEEK,A CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer enplaned for an established customer in France.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-20,” “”STAMPED “”””APPROVED”””””””,”PRAKLA-SEISMOS AG, Hanover, Germany, is the site of reinstallation of a CRAY Y-MP2 supercomputer which was accepted after three weeks of testing. This is the second Cray Research system for this geophysical and seismological research center. Another repeat customer has approved installation of a used CRAY X-MP s~stem. Availability was 100 percent during the month-long technical testing pe~iod.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-20, TWO SHIPMENTS OVERSEAS,”A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was shipped to a chiefly automotive company in Japan, a customer whose first procurement was a CRAY X-MP system. A CRAY Y-MP4 computer system flew over the Atlantic to a Southern European customer, their second Cray Research system also.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-20, WINDING UP,”Two jumbo systems, CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers, are in the final phase of customer acceptance testing, at Exxon’s computing center in Houston and at the Naval Oceanography Command, Bay St. Louis, ~fississippi.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-03, SYSTEMS IN ACCEPTANCE,”A pre-Christmas site report shows another CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, a CRAY Y-MP2E system, and a used CRAY X-MP system as having entered the testing phase for customer acceptance. All are domestic installations.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-10, THE FINALE,”In the latter part of December several systems began to be tested for customer acceptance, namely, the CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan; a CRAY Y-MP4 computer system in Holland; and a CRAY Y-MP2 system in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-10, YEAR-END ACCEPTANCES,”A number of systems were accepted by the customers during the last half of December. Three were CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers: at Exxon in Texas, a NASA site, and a national lab installation. The fourth was the CRAY Y-MP4 system shipped to Kia Motors in South Korea.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-31, BEGINNING TESTING,”In Japan a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer, which was shipped to Mazda Motor Corporation’s headquarters in Hiroshima-ken before the end of last year, started acceptance testing on January 14. System valuation is about $8 million, and it is the second Cray Research computer at Mazda.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-31, TWO SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”A reinstalled CRAY X-MP system was accepted at a southern university site on January 12 after a month’s testing. A CRAY Y-MP supercomputer, in France, was accepted on January 14 after just two weeks of pre-acceptance testing by the customer. Both systems provided 100 percent availability.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-07, BEGINNING THE PROCEDURE,”Two systems entered the pre-acceptance testing phase–before embarking on their long and productive, useful lives–on January 21: a CRAY Y-MP4 in France and a CRAY X-MP EA at a U.S. Government installation.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-07, OVERSEAS ACCEPTANCE,A CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer was accepted by the new Dutch customer after thirty days of testing with 100 percent availability during the period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-07, SYSTEM SHIPMENTS,”During the past week two systems were shipped, a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer to a new customer in Japan and a pre-owned CRAY X-MP EA system to a personal computer company in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-07, WANTED: TASK TEAM NOMINATIONS,”All employees are invited to nominate support staff employees to serve on the 1991 Support Staff Seminar Task Team (self-nominations accepted also). The l2-member Task Team includes representation from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Americas. The Support Staff Seminar is held annually for personnel in positions such as receptionist, administrative assistant, clerk, secretary, production support, and other related roles. The ’91 seminar will be held in the Twin Cities September 24 and 26, with an optional half-day tour on September 25. In making nominations keep in mind the following work requirements of Task Team members: 1) approximately four monthly day-long planning meetings, 2) one day-long follow-up evaluation meeting, 3) extended participation (2-4 days/nights) at the seminar, 4) release time, travel, and lodging ~id by participant’s manager, and 5) ability to assume significant seminar planning duties during work time. Act now! Submit your nomination(s) to Sharon Elbert, HR Core Services Group/Training, either by email (HPDesk) or by hard copy to 655D Lone Oak Drive, Eagan. Nomination deadline: Friday, February 15.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, ACCEPTANCE IN JAPAN,”At Tohoku University’s Institute of Fluid Science, Miyagi-ken, on the island of Kyushu, a leased CRAY Y-MPB supercomputer, shipped before the end of the year, has been accepted after thirty days of testing, with 100 percent availability to the customer during the testing period.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, TRIPLE WHAMMY,Three computer shipments were made during the past week: A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was delivered to a Canadian site; a CRAY X-MP EA system is being reinstalled for an old customer in our north central region; and another CRAY X-MP EA was shipped to a new customer in Texas.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-28, HISTORIC DATE,”Next Monday, March 4, is the fifteenth anniversary of the shipment in 1976 of the first Cray Research computer, the CRAY-l. Serial 1 CRAY-l was delivered to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laboratory) in New Mexico. It can be seen in the Cray Museum in Systems.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-07, A REINSTALLATION,A pre-owned CRAY X-MP computer system was shipped last week to a staunch old customer’s site in California.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-07, AN ACCEPTANCE,A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was accepted after meeting very stringent qualifications at a U.S. automaker’s design and testing facility.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-07, FINAL PHASE,Testing for customer acceptance started mid-February for three computer systems: a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer and two CRAY X-MP EA systems.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-14, CANKER SORE OR COLD SORE?,”The Mayo Clinic Heal th Letter clears them up in its March issue: “”Cold sores have nothing to do with the cammon cold. What’s more, the cause, appearance, symptoms and treaUments of canker sores and cold sores differ markedly. “”A canker sore is an ulcer on the nrucous manbrane inside your mouth, typically a round, yellow spot with a red halo. Heredity, stress and infections don’t cause canker sores. A minor injury like biting the inside of your mouth may prompt canker sores. But most specialists believe they are caused by an ~e system response. For relief, apply ice to the canker sore and avoid food that is irritating. Another option is to rinse your mouth with an over-the-counter preparation like diluted hydrogen peroxide or elixir of Benadryl. “”Also known as fever blisters, cold sores are cammon. They may appear on your mouth, lips, nose, cheeks or fingers. The herpes simplex virus 1 causes cold sores. You get cold sores fran another person who has an active condition. Eating utensils, razors and towels are cammon means of spreading this infection. Symptoms may not start for as long as 20 days after you were exposed, and usually last seven to 10 days. Small, fluid-filled blisters develop on a raised, red, painful area of skin. “”The virus may emerge later as an active infection near the original site. Fever, menstruation and exposure to the sun may trigger a recurrence. Most cold sores subside within a few days, but your doctor may prescribe an intiviral drug (salve or pills) for troublesome outbreaks.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-14, CUSTOMER APPROVAL,”Two systems completed thirty-day testing periods and were accepted in late February: a CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer installed at Fiat Auto in Turin, Italy, and a CRAY X-MP system at a U.S. Government site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-14, OVERSEAS SHIPMENT,”The United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, one of the major weather forecasting centers in the world, ordered a CRAY Y-MPS supercomputer worth over $21 million some months ago. The system, which is to be purchased, was shipped last week to the UK Met’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The Centre was developed to conduct research on climatic changes using numerical models. This is the second CRAY Y-MPS supercomputer to be acquired by UK Met. An eight-processor CRAY Y-MPS was installed at Bracknell in December 19S9.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-21, CRAY X-MP ACCEPTED,A reinstalled CRAY X-MP system was accepted after 18 days of testing with 100 percent availability to the computer-business customer during the period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-21, CRAY Y-MP8 SHIPMENT,One of our largest CRAY Y-MP supercomputers was shipped last week to a Special Systems site.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-21, FINAL TEST,”Four more systems are reported as undergoing customer testing for acceptance. Three are CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputers, two in Japan and the other at a U.S. military installation. The fourth is a CRAY X-MP system at a U.S. site for scientific research.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-28, ANOTHER CRAY X-MP SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”A CRAY X-MP EA computer system was accepted on March 5, after a two-week pre-acceptance testing period with zero interruptions at a university supercomputer center.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-11, HELP!,”A package shipped from the MH Distribution Center to Logistics on March 7 has gone astray. The package contains 20 Sun compact disks, urgently needed. Would you all please check your areas for this package and contact Jamie Charbonneau, extension 4210, if you find it. Thank you very much!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-11, SHIPMENT TO SWITZERLAND,”Last week air shipment was made of a CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer to a technical school in Switzerland, their second Cray Research computer system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-11, SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”Acceptance of a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer at a Special Systems site as of March 21 is reported, after a thirty-day pre-acceptance testing period.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-18, DOMESTIC SHIPMENT,Shipment was made last week of a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer to a Special Systems site in the U.S.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-18, MANY ACCEPTANCES,Four ·systems were reported accepted as of the end of March. Three were CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputers in Japan; two of these had perfect scores during pre-acceptance testing; and one of these was at Mazda Motor Corporation. The fourth accepted was a CRAY X-MP EA system in Texas. The extra-large CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer shipped to UK Met in March is undergoing a thirty-day acceptance testing period; as is the CRAY Y-MP2 system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-18, SHIPMENT TO SPAIN,”A year ago an order from the Catalonian Research Foundation for a CRAY X-MP system was announced. The computer has been shipped and is being installed at the Polytechnic University in Barcelona, Spain. The used system is to be purchased and will serve the Autonomous and Central Universities as well as the Polytechnic.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-25, OFF TO EUROPE,”Two CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputers were shipped overseas last week, one to an old customer in Germany and one to a new customer in Netherlands. Informatica Centrum Voor Infrastructuur en Milieu is the leading computer services bureau in Holland, and the system is being installed at ICIM’s headquarters in Rijswijk. As much of Netherlands is below sea level, the country is particularly concerned with coastal protection. The supercomputer will model and predict the effects of North Sea tidal propagation and the impact of human activities on water movement at sea and in estuaries and rivers.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-25, OK IN THE UK,”The United Kingdom Meteorological Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, England, has accepted the CRAY Y-MP8 computer system worth about $21.4 million it received last month and which is being purchased by this major worldforecasting center. Another CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer is being put through its paces in a 20-day pre-acceptance testing period at a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-09, TWO FOR FINALS,”Two more systems have newly entered upon the customers’ pre-acceptance testing programs, a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer at a Special Systems site on April 22 and a CRAY Y-MP4 system in Switzerland on April 30.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-09, TWO TO EUROPE,”A sale to a new customer is always exciting. Announcement of an order from Centro Supercalcolo Piemonte, a’ new supercomputer center in Turin, Italy, for a CRAY Y-MP2E system was made in March. The new research center serves a consortium including the University and the Poly technical Institute of Turin as well as private industry in the Piemonte region. A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer system worth about $3 million was shipped to CSP last week. The second shipment comprised a large CRAY Y-MPS supercomputer and peripheral equipment, which will be installed at a world leader in automotive design in Germany.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, AND ONE MORE,”The third CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer to be shipped last week went to a research institute in California, their third Cray Research system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, ANOTHER TO CONOCO,”A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer worth about $5 million has been shipped to the Conoco facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma. This is the second order from the petroleum company for a Cray Research system. David Browning, manager of computer operations, said the new system will be used for oil exploration and production: “”The new computer will allow the company to conduct advanced oil exploration and reservoir modeling techniques.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, CORRECTIVE ACTION NEEDED,”Too much time is being lost waiting and looking for lost shipments. To prevent losing items shipped between buildings, please use shipping labels and address them to a specific person and building. There are items now sitting on loading docks with no label or simply addressed to a building. Packages are sometimes delivered to a wrong building because a reused box still has previous delivery instructions on it. Certainly we want to recycle boxes, but remove old labels if possible, or put the new one over the old. It also helps a great deal–and it’s just common sense–for the sender to fill in that part of the label. Labels are available from Shipping. Let’s put quality into internal shipments, too.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, FIRST SHIPMENT OF CRAY Y-MP4E,”DKRZ, the primary climate research facility for all of united Germany, is the first customer to receive shipment of our very cost effective system, the CRAY Y-MP4E supercomputer. DKRZ already has a CRAY-2 system. From news report: ”DKRZ conducts environmental research on behalf of the Gennany Ministry of Research and Technology, supporting researchers throughout Gennany in meteorology, climatology and oceanography. The Cray system will be used primarily to conduct global climate research and prediction of weather-related environmental issues such as global warming.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, SYSTEM TO PFIZER,”Pfizer Inc., the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S., ordered a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer earlier in the spring. Shipment has been made, and the system is being installed at Pfizer Central Research, Groton, Connect icut . From our news release: “”Pfizer will use the new system for canputational chemistry to enable scientists to model potential drug molecules and simulate how these agents might interact with the biological targets believed to be associated with diseases. Scientists located in Groton will use the system, as will researchers at the company’s laboratories in Sandwich, England through a high-speed data link. Prior to placing the order, Pfizer observed demonstrations of Cray Research’s remote network supercomputing, demonstrating how chemists can run the graphical interface on a workstation located in the Sandwich lab. For the past year Pfizer has purchased time on a Cray supercanputer located at the Pittsburgh supercanputer center. By accessing the Pittsburgh system the company discovered that it could reduce fram 17 days to 10 hours the time required to canplete one chemistry problem.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-23, VOTES OF APPROVAL,”Two recent acceptances have been reported, both systems having performed with 100 percent availability to the respective customer during the preacceptance testing period. A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at a Special Systems site was accepted on April 30 after twenty days of testing. A CRAY Y-MP2 system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, was accepted on May 1, after thirty days of testing. The CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer recently shipped to ICIM, the leading computer services center in Netherlands, began pre-acceptance testing on May 6.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-06, ACCEPTANCE TRIALS,”CRAY CHIPS reported shipment of a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer to an old German customer the end of April. The customer is the Regional Computer Center of the University of Stuttgart (RUS). Testing of the CRAY Y-MP2E computer system–the first to be installed in Europe–to meet customer performance standards for acceptance began May 27. RUS previously had installed both CRAY-l and CRAY-2 computers. The second CRAY Y-MP2E system to be installed in Europe was that shipped to CSP, supercomputer center in Turin, Italy, early in May. A thirty-day testing period for customer acceptance began May 16. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-06, ANOTHER TO GRUMMAN,”Early this year an order from Grumman Corporation for a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was announced, the fourth order for a Cray Research system from this customer of ten years’ standing. Grumman Data Systems acquired Serial 29 CRAY-1 computer system in 1981, a CRAY-1/M system in 1983, and a CRAY X-MP/14 in 1987. The CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer system shipped last week is worth about $5 million, and will be used for aerospace research and design, including computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-13, ACCEPTED,A Special Systems CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer has been accepted after 30 days of testing with 100 percent availability to the customer during that period.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-13, THE ACID TEST,”Testing for acceptance has started for four more systems: the CRAY Y-MP4E supercomputer recently shipped to the German Climate Research Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg, Germany; the CRAY Y-MP2E system recently shipped to Pfizer Inc. in Connecticut; another recent CRAY Y-MP2E installation in California; and another shipment to Germany, this a large CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-20, TO FRANCE,”Announcement was made in January of another order from Peugeot S.A., the automotive manufacturer composed of Automobiles Peugeot and Automobiles Citroen, for a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer. The system was shipped last week to the PSA computer facility near Paris.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-20, TWO CRAY Y-MP SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer has undergone thirty days of testing at the computer services bureau, ICIM, in Netherlands and been accepted. In Switzerland a CRAY Y-MP4 system has completed a similar testing period for customer acceptance. The very recently shipped CRAY Y-MP2E computer system at Marion Merrell Dow in Cincinnati is already in the acceptance stage, as of June 10. *George M. Low rose through the ranks at NASA. He provided management and direction for the Mercury, GEmini, Apollo, and Advanced Manned Missions Programs.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-20, WHAT IS THIS NASA EXCELLENCE AWARD?,”It is the NASA Excellence Award for quality and productivity that has been given for the past six years. A company makes application by demonstrating its achievements against certain goals. Dan Romenesko, with Don Whiting’s encouragement and support, initiated the procedure by applying to NASA to submit an application report for Award. We were one of 150 companies “”invited”” to apply for the 1989/1990 recognition. The manufacturing goals for 1989 and performance in achieving them were documented in an outstanding “”Application Report 1989/1990″” prepared by Dan, Jill Antolak, Rich Brueckner, Al Chastain, Katie Kroll, Mark Lang, Tom Menard, Julie Mewhorter, Bill Schrieber, and Micky Schroeder. In spite of the fine record, we did not win that year. So, let’s talk about 1990/1991. It is now the “”George M. Low* Trophy NASA Quality and Excellence Award,”” and Cray Research Manufacturing division has been named as one of eight finalists. Lou Saye is the head of the effort, with Dan Romenesko being NASA’s contact. The “”Application Report 1990/1991″” is excellent. Among the many who contributed to its preparation are Al Chastain, Jeff Crosby, Mary Geisert, Art Hebert, Bill Hoffman, Rich Lough, Darla Peterson, Bill Schrieber, Micky Schroeder, Des Sikowski-Nelson, Peggy Smith, and Carl Wehman. They hasten to say that credit belongs to all Cray Research employees; it is their performance that is documented. The next step is an on-site visit by the NASA Evaluation Team on July 8-9. It is the largest team to have volunteered for such a mission, nineteen people, but they all want to see where the computers they value so highly come from. There are representatives from NASA headquarters, the Centers– Kennedy, Langley, Lewis, Ames, Goddard, Johnson, and Marshall–and the American Society for Quality Control. Susan Burns is coordinating the onsite visit whose purpose is to verify the achievements in our report. The final decision will be made in the fall. The winner will be announced at the NASA vendors’ conference in November.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-27, CRAY Y-MP2 SYSTEM SHIPPED,One of the last of the 1400 series of CRAY Y-MP supercomputers was shipped this past week to one of our very earliest customers in the Great Southwest.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-27, IN ACCEPTANCE,”Testing for acceptance of a CRAY Y-MP2E system at Conoco, Inc., in Oklahoma, started on June 14. Conoco, one of the world’s largest producers of energy–oil, natural gas, and coal–and a major refiner and marketer of petroleum products, purchased a CRAY X-MP computer system in July 1986. Grumman Corporation is putting its new CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer through its paces, requiring only a seven-day testing period before acceptance and commencement of aerospace research and design.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-03, A-OK IN EUROPE,”The CRAY Y-MP2E system that has been undergoing customer testing at the supercomputer center, esp, in Italy was accepted June 15, with 100 percent availability to esp during the testing period. “” ,-,~-‘ … –~-.—————“”-. A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was accepted at a German automaker’s site after 30 days of testing, on June 11.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-03, BIG IRON,Shipment of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was made last week to a Special Systems site in the Eastern U.S.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-11, SHORT BUSY WEEK,”Three computer systems were shipped in the short three-day week last. One was a CRAY X-MP EA system, delivered to a long-time university computer center customer. In January our news release announced an order from the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales in France for a CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. ONERA’s order was filled last week with a CRAY Y-MP8 system, their fourth Cray Research mainframe. This national organization develops, directs, and coordinates aerospace research in cooperation with other French scientific and technical research organizations. It also provides private aerospace manufacturers throughout France with access to its supercomputers. “”ONERA is to France what NASA is to the United States,”” said John Rollwagen. This installation is the 27th in France of a Cray Research computer system. The third shipment was to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, a CRAY Y-MP2E system to be used for environmental research, scientific data visualization and image processing, spacecraft navigation and design, radio astronomy, and solar system physics. The order also included our high-speed networking technology that will link the system to three other computer centers as part of the CASA Gigabit Testbed Project.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-11, THREE CRAY Y-MP2E SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”All recorded 100 percent customer availability during the final testing period. The sites are Pfizer Central Research in Groton, Connecticut, Grumman Corporation–both of these accepted on June 18–and a research facility in California, where the supercomputer was accepted on June 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-18, THREE ACCEPTANCES,”The first installation of a CRAY Y-MP4E computer system has been accepted by the German Climate Research Center, DKRZ, on June 27 after a 30-day testing period. Two CRAY Y-MP2E systems were accepted: Also in Germany, at the University of Stuttgart, on June 26, 100 percent availability during 30 days of testing; and at Marion Merrell Dow in Ohio, on June 25, only 15 days of testing required, also 100 percent customer accessibility.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-18, THREE MORE STARTS,”Systems which have begun recently to be tested for acceptance are the CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer at Peugeot S.A. in France, as of June 27–PSA is requiring only a week’s trial–a CRAY X-MP EA system at the Polytechnic University in Barcelona, Spain, as of June 30–to meet our own technical standards–and a CRAY Y-MP2 system at one of the national labs, as of July 1, for one week only.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-18, TWO SHIPMENTS,”In the early part of last week the second CRAY Y-MP4E computer system was delivered to an old customer, a U.S. automobile manufacturer, their fourth Cray Research system. At week’s end a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer departed for a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-26, CRAY Y-MP8 SHIPMENT,”Last week a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was delivered to a national medical research organization in the east, its second Cray Research computer system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-26, SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”The CRAY Y-MP2E system at Peugeot S.A. was accepted on the Fourth of July, and a CRAY Y-MP2 system at a national lab in the southwest on July 8. Both performed with 100 percent availability to the customers during testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-01, ENERGETIC ACCEPTANCE,”The CRAY Y-MP2E computer system which has been undergoing customer acceptance testing at Conoco, Inc., in Oklahoma performed excellently during the thirty days and was accepted on July 15. A thirty-day test period has started for a recently shipped CRAY Y-MP4E system at a U.S. automaker’s establishment.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-01, SYSTEM SHIPPED,A CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was shipped last week to a Special Systems site.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, CRAY Y-MP4E ACCEPTANCE,”The second installation of this new model system was accepted on July 17, after just a week of customer testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, CRAY Y-MP8 SHIPMENT,”An overseas shipment of a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer was made last week, to a German automaker’s facility, the second order from this customer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, I.C. FAB II,”””There’s going to be a whole lot of shaking going on!”” at Development. Ground has been broken for construction of a new integrated circuits facility next to present I.C. Fab. Anderson DeBartolo Pan, Inc., Tucson, architects and engineers, have been selected to design and manage the building and cleanroom construction. Our design team is composed of Joe Caskinette, Carol Wos, Kevin Dolan, and Bob Koplin, with George Wos as project leader. Minor inconveniences in parking will have to be endured due to the link to be constructed from Development. A fence is installed around the site and traffic has been redirected. The handicapped ramp is now outside the Security station window and opposite the designated parking spaces. Most trees and plants on the site were available for removal by Development employees. We have acquired Dr. Lee’s office building, which will remain, and is currently the ADP construction office. The current schedule shows the building shell being completed by year-end.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, WORKING ON IT,”Three more supercomputers are among those now clearing the final hurdles for customer acceptance: a CRAY Y-MP2E system at Caltech in Pasadena, a CRAY Y-MP8 and a CRAY X-MP EA system.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-22, OUR BUSY SEASON IS FROM NOW O~,”During the past two weeks the traffic department was efficiently managing the shipment of six computer systems. Four were CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputers and two used CRAY X-MP systems for reinstallation. In the spring the Chippewa Herald-Telegram ran an article reporting our announcement of the sale of a CRAY Y-MP2E computer system worth S4.6 million to Apple Computer. The system was shipped August 9 to Cupertino, California. “”This order includes Cray Research’s state-of-the-art disk storage units, as well as the canpany’s advanced networking technology for Apple’s high performance canputer network.”” Also in the Chippewa H-T last week: liThe Konrad-Zuse Center for Information Technology Berlin (ZIB) has ordered a CRAY Y-MP2E system. The new systen will be networked to ZIB’ s Cray X-~IP . . . ZIB researches numerical algorithms and mixed symbolic/numerical problems and provides supercomputer services to German research institutes and universities.”” This order has been filled with delivery of the CRAY Y-MP2E computer system to the computer center of the Zentrum fur Informationstechnik. ZIB’s twoprocessor CRAY X-MP was received in early 1987; ZIB was then part of the University of West Berlin. Desinations of the other two CRAY Y-MP2E computers were England and a U.S. national lab. The pre-owned systems were installed at the sites of old customers in California.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-22, SYSTEM ACCEPTED,In Spain a reinstalled CRAY X-MP/14se computer system has been accepted. It is serving a network of universities.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-22, THE LAST LAP,”Four more extra-large size systems are into customer testing for acceptance. Two of the CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers are U.S. installations–one in medical THE VIGS PJtogJteJ.>J.> on. I.C. Fab II iA on. J.>c.he.dule., ~aljJ.> Ge.oJtg e. WOJ.>. PJte.WA.,on. e.xc.avation. iJ.>em cur;t, :to0 ! research; another is in Germany; and the fourth is at the French aerospace organization, ONERA, near Paris. ONERA has been a Cray Research customer for over seven years. Thirty-nine of our computer systems are engaged in aerospace research and design. The fifth system to enter the final testing phase is a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer at a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-05, MANY ACCEPTANCES,”A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer has been accepted after a minimal three-day testing period with no interruptions. The system is installed at an automotive industry site in Germany. Two CRAY Y-MP4E systems were accepted, one on August 15 at a Special Systems site and one on August 19 at a national laboratory. The fourth acceptance was reinstallation of a CRAY X-MP system at a university supercomputer center, on August 13.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-12, SYSTEMS IN ACCEPTANCE,”Three more computer systems are reported as having entered the customer testing phase for final acceptance: CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputers in England and Germany, on August 27 and August 28 respectively, and reinstallation of a CRAY X-MP system in California on August 30.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-19, FIVE LARGE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ACCEPTED,”Three of the systems reported recently accepted are our really heavy metal CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputers. Very pleasing is acceptance by the National Cancer Institute of an eight-processor system at the Research and Development Center in Frederick, Maryland, to be devoted exclusively to biomedical research, specifically to seeking cures for cancer and AIDS. Quoting our news release: ”’Fran day one of the installation, the CRAY Y-MP system has perfonned beautifully and has been used by bianedical researchers throughout the U. S. and in Europe,’ said Charlie Crum, executive director of the Advanced Scientific Computing Laboratory, Program Resources, Inc., which manages the supercomputer for NCI.’ A CRAY Y-MP8 system recently shipped to the French National Organization of Aerospace Research (ONERA) was accepted August 30, after a month’s testing. A stamp of approval was awarded a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer at a Special Systems site on August 21, after thirty days of testing. A CRAY Y-MP2E computer system at the California Institute of Technology completed thirty days of technical acceptance testing on August 21 with 100 percent availability during the period; no interruptions. The supercomputer replaced a leased CRAY X-MP system installed at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena in the spring of 1989. A second CRAY Y-MP2E system at a U.S. military establishment finished a similar thirty-day testing period on August 26, 100 per, 0 interrupts.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-19, THEY’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN,”At Apple Computers, Inc., Cupertino, California, the CRAY Y-MP2E computer system shipped earlier in the month began its acceptance testing run on August 26, for thirty days. The system will be purchased. A CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, a NASA installation, began its final run for customer OK on September 5. Acceptance testing of a reinstalled CRAY X-MP system at a university site began on August 22.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-26, ACID TEST,”Final testing for customer acceptance has begun for five more systems: a CRAY Y-MP8 (another Special Systems installation), a CRAY Y-MP2E at a university site, two CRAY X-MP EA systems, and a reinstalled CRAY X-MP/14se.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-26, GOVERNMENT SHIPMENT,”Shipment of a CRAY Y-MP4E supercomputer was made late last week, with system being delivered Sunday to a Special Systems site.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-26, GOVERNMENT SYSTEM ACCEPTED,”A CRAY Y-MP8 jumbo jet was accepted on August 31, after a month’s testing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-03, THE WEEK’S MAJOR TRAFFIC,”Last spring we announced receipt of an order from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, one of the world’s largest universities, for a CRAYY-MP4/432supercomputer. The system has been shipped to UNAM’s new supercomputer center at the main campus in Mexico City–the first such installa- tion in Latin America. From news release: “”The CRAY Y-MP supercomputer will be used to support research in chemistry, structural engineering, astronomy, physics, and environmental research. Examples include simulating earthquake shocks on earthen dams and skyscrapers, as well as modeling the pollution in Mexico City.”” Two CRAY Y-1fP2E superco~puters were also shipped last week, both to new customers, one a state university in the northeastern U.S. and the other an industry in France.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-10, AN ACCEPTANCE,”A university customer in California has accepted reinstallation of a CRAY X-MP system, on completion of a 3D-day technical acceptance period. Testing for technical acceptance has begun for a CRAY X-hlP EA computer system at an institute of technology site in New England.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-10, SHIPPING ACTIVITY,”Fiat Auto in Turin, Italy, acquired a CRAY X-MP/14se system in January 1989, which was replaced this year by a CRAY Y-MP4 supercomputer. The X-MP/14se computer has now gone to an already existing university customer in Italy, replacing an earlier model CRAY X-MP single-processor. To the same general area, globally speaking, a CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was shipped last week, to a government agency in Madrid.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-17, PROGRESS ON IC FAB II,”What the casual observer observed last Friday: the stripes on one of the cement mixers going round and round; a Ford shovel moving dirt; twenty men hard at work on the construction project. What is actually going on: “”It’s on schedule; about four days ahead in fact,”” said George Wos proudly and enthusiastically. “”They’re pouring concrete for the waffle slab, formed by means of fiberglass pans, each of which has four tubes for airflow. This is the raised floor (like a computer floor) that the cleanroom will actually sit on. The floor will be finished next week. Then they will start on the link to present Development, and the silo. You’ve heard about the silo?”” No, I had not heard about the silo. This is the touch which will reflect our agricultural ambience. It will be the turning spot in the link. The design calls for three windows shaped like “”wafers,”” so light shining through will project a wafer pattern on the floor! Market & Johnson has taken over now’as general contractor, with ADP of Tucson continuing to oversee. One thousand truckloads of dirt went out, replaced by six hundred of concrete. Phoenix Steel will use a 330-foot crane on November 4 when the steel goes up. The crane presently in use on the site is “”small””–only 75-80 feet. The goal is still to have the building enclosed December 1.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-17, SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE,”A brief testing period–a week only–was required by the customer for a CRAY X-MP EA computer system delivered in September. One hundred percent availability was maintained during the acceptance testing, naturally.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-17, UNDER TEST,”Five more systems have begun to be tested in the final procedure before acceptance: one in Japan, a CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer, for thirty days; two CRAY Y-MP2E computer systems, each for a week only, one at an old petroleum customer’s site and the other in France; and two new CRAY Y-MP8I supercomputers, Special Systems, for thirty-day testing periods.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-24, THE WEEK’S MAINFRAME SHIPMENTS,”Both were overseas. A CRAY Y-MP4E supercomputer was shipped to an old customer in England, their third Cray Research system. A CRAY Y-MP2E computer system went to a new automotive customer in Tokyo.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-24, THIRTEEN SYSTEMS–COUNT ~M–ACCEPTED,”The CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer is certainly a popular product. No less than seven such systems are announced accepted: at Apple Computer in California; the Konrad-Zuse Center for Information Technology Berlin; two systems in France; one in England; at a university customer’s and a petroleum site, respectively, in the U.S. Three acceptances were of powerful CRAY Y-MP8 computer systems: one in Japan after only 24 hours of testing required, one at a NASA installation, and one at a Special Systems site. The other three are reinstallations of CRAY X-MP systems: two of the EA series, at a U.S. university site and a French government facility; and the third, an early 4 processor system at an air industry customer~s research center in the U.S.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-31, PRETTY HEAVY TRAFFIC,”Another CRAY Y-MP2E supercomputer was shipped late last week to another new customer, a chemical industry in the U.S. Another CRAY Y-MP4E computer system was shipped early this week to another new customer, an electronics industry in Japan. Four more large computer systems are scheduled to depart later this week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-31, THE CAPSULE,”On Saturday morning, November 6, 1976, almost fifteen years ago, a time “”capsule””–a pretty big one, 20 by 20 by 58 inches–was buried under the Flag Display on Bridge Street. Quoting the Chippewa Herald Telegram at the time, it contained “”the remains of Chippewa Falls, 1976. A special marker … will instruct our children’s children to dig up the vault and open it one hundred years from now on July 4, 2076.”” The “”remains”” included lots of pictures, menus, data on government offices and banks, newspapers, magazines, ads for groceries, and more. Was it coincidence that 1976 was the year of the first Cray Research, Inc., computer shipment? Serial 1 CRAY-l left for Los Alamos in March 1976. Our contribution for posterity’s edification included a module, a booklet, “”The CRAY-l Computer System,”” a list of employees, and general information about the Company.

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-24, FROM THE EIC REPORTS,”Many sites reporting 100 percent months. John Jones, at Exxon in Texas, says, “”The Customer has started recently to call us ‘The May tag Repair Man’– I hope that means what I take it to mean.”” From Cliff Shoemaker at the University of Texas: “”The Customer was delighted about how well the SSD installation went. And also, the flawless acceptance period. Our thanks go to the people from Chippewa for doing a fine job.”” Chuck Swirtz at ARAMCO reports: “”Roger Andrea leaves us next month to go back to the States via Africa and Australia for his new job in Tech Support working on the Cray-3 project. His 2-year senlerlce here in Saudi is up the end of July; we wish him good luck.”” From Kash Yachimoto at Nissan: “”The Customer is proud to be the first automobile manufacture having the Cray Supercomputer over the Pacific

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-18, AN IRRESISTIBLE STORY,”Once upon a time a Cray Research supercomputer contained 400,000 terminating resistors for emitter coupled logic circuitry. These were purchased from outside vendors at considerable cost. Paul Schroeder, who came to work for Cray Research as an R&D engineer in November 1980, had been working on the idea of incorporating resistors with board circuitry. Soon after Jim Berry joined us in March 1981 (after a long association with him at Memorex), he and Paul proposed to Les Davis integrating the Ohmega technology with the circuit boards. Les gave the approval without which this great costsavings and more reliable innovation would not have been effected. “”It”” is a nickel phosphorous layer of metal whereby on etching the value of the resistor is controlled through the width and length. Paul’s design included the means of replacing the internal resistors with discrete components as formerly if it hadn’t worked. But it did work, and fantastically. It was an almost immediate success, with prototyping in April 1981, and boards in January 1982. An improved design of May 1982 is still used today, and has become fairly standard in the industry. (Checkout people appreciate just turning on a machine and having it run, whereas before there were always some bad solder joints.) In the first full year after adoption, 1983, there was a total savings of $l! million, an estimated cost reduction of $75,000 per system. (Consider the cost-effectivity today comparing that year’s production with this.) The CRAY-2 design did not originally use the internal resistor, but it has now been incorporated, saving $150,000-$175,000 per system. The new Input/ Output Subsystem uses the built-in resistor. The Y-MP design builds redundant resistors into the board. The CRAY-3 doesn’t use resistors at all, and Paul has moved on to the new challenges in CRAY-3 design. He reports directly to Seymour as project manager of CRAY-3 circuit boards. “”It is a very dense package with very new concepts, using robots and lasers.”” We have two of the three most advanced drilling machines in the industry. Paul shares credit with his three capable engineers, Randy Haslow, Russ Eidal, and Sam Miller, for excellent progress on the CRAY-3.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-10-22, CRAY RESEARCH AND THE DEUTSCHES MUSEUM,”Reputed to be the finest museum of science and technology in the world, it isn’t surprising that this famous institution in Munich, West Germany, coveted displaying the finest computer, “”to recognize the position of Cray Research in leadership in the computer world.”” With Serial 26 CRAY-l system being replaced at the West German aerospace concern, DFVLR, by a dualprocessor CRAY X-MP computer, we have offered the CRAY-l mainframe to the Museum. Serial 26 will not have a full complement of modules, but it will be a realistic, though non-operating, display. Our conditions are that they must protect the modules; no one will be allowed to study or walk away with them. Robert Noll, engineering manager at Cray Research GmbH, Dr. Fischer of the Deutsches Museum, and our customer, DFVLR, all are involved in planning for this exciting event. Robert says: “”Now we are in contact with various groups within Cray Inc. and are currently processing a Deutsches Museum/Cray Inc. agreement and if we receive an export licence, the SN26 mainframe will be on display at the Deutsches Museum approximately in April 88.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-14, AMIGA COMPUTER DEMO,”A demonstration of Commodore-Amiga personal computer hardware and software will take place this afternoon, Thursday, April 14, at 4:30 in the Engineering building lunchroom. Several systems will be set up to demonstrate the color graphics and sound generation capabilities of the AMIGA. The AMIGA computer system is unique among machines in its class, offering specialized graphics hardware support and a multitasking operating system. If you want to find out more about the AMIGA, stop over after work. The demonstration is being presented by an informal group of AMIGA users at Cray Research.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, CONCOURS SEYMOUR CRAY FRANCE 1988,”The new poster is out and announcement of the competition for the best scientific papers on microelectronics, computer architecture, numerical simulation, parallel algorithms, and microrobotics. The last two disciplines were added just this year. Following are recipients of the prizes awarded in the 1987 competition: Bernard Hennion, 34, engineer, French National Telecommunications Research Center, “”A Contribution to an Electrical Simulation of VLSI Circuits,”” 75,000 French francs (approximately $13,250). Jean-Francois Colonna, 41, software, Ecole Poly technique , “”Picture: A Working Tool,”” 50,000 FF. Mrs. Marianna Braza, 34, engineer, National Center for Scientific Research, and Professor Hieu Ha-Minh, AIAA, “”Numerical Methods in Laminar and Turbulent Flow,”” 50,000 FF. Paul de Casteljau, 58, engineer, Automobiles Citroen, “”Contribution of Research in Algorithms for Industrial Computers,”” 25,000 FF. Dominique d’Humieres, 41, engineer, and Andre Clouqueur, 42, research expert, Ecole National Superieure, “”R.A.P. 1, a Cellular Automaton Machine for Fluid Dynamics,”” 25,000 FF.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-08-11, FIFTY SITES BAT 1.000,”The June EIC Narratives report a new record of fifty systems’ operating at 100 percent availability to the customers during the month. But too often is our sophisticated equipment at the mercy of the elements. John Stuber at KAPL in Schenectady notes “”a power failure caused by an electrical storm.”” At Marshall Space Flight Center Charlie Breedlove reports, “”On the 25, Huntsville had a ‘brown out’ caused by lack of water flowing through the hydroelectric dams. This caused all three sites in Huntsville to go down. Here at NASA, things finally did get stable, and the system was back up and running when some much needed (at least tha t ‘s what they told us) thunderstonns came through and knocked us down again. Again, we came back up without problems.”” Craig Coalson in Ohio reports Serial 315 CRAY X-MP experienced “”Envirorunental shutdown due to high humidity”” on both the 10th and 13th of the month. Jim Rye and Mark Juaire underwater (Naval Underwater Systems Center,Rhode Island) reported six shutdowns of Serial 424 CRAY X-MP because of high dew point, but (gloryosky!) “”June 22nd another ten ton airhandler was installed; since installation we have not suffered any dew point problems.”” Rich Powell at the Scripps si te, too: “”This rronth we had two shutdowns due to high dew-point, on 6/8 and 6/18. The customer is very concerned, and is working to resolve the humidity problems.”” DeWayne Cormack, Conoco, Oklahoma: “”T-Stonns got us on June 8.”” Kash Yachimoto at MITI reported two power outages from thunderstorms and a problem with the SSD: “”Akihiko Ichihashi, Mike Mathews and Kenzo Kitahara supported and helped me upon this even t . SSD runs fine now.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-15, RECENT INSTALLATIONS’ STATUS,”A CRAY-2 system, Serial 2018, delivered to Lawrence Livermore’s National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center in mid-August, started a thirty-day 90-percent acceptance testing period on August 30. This system is worth about $17.5 million. Another CRAY-2 supercomputer, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Serial 2017, began testing for acceptance on September 1. In West Germany Serial 319 CRAY X-MP completed a 24-hour operating system run September 1, was turned over to Software September 2 and accepted by the customer September 5. Serial 439 CRAY X-MP at Toyota was declared ready-to-use September 5; Serial 1102 CRAY X-MP, August 31; and Serial 1103 on September 7.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-29, REPORTS FROM FAR AFIELD,”The July EIC Narratives from France are pretty boring, with seven systems operating at 100-percent availability to the customers: Eric Alonso at INFOCIP writes, “”July was a very quiet month. . • The CPU activity is increasing significantly and customer seems very satisfied.”” Bernard Paillocher, ONERA, says, “”No interrupt during this month. System running fine.”” Philippe Garon at Peugeot, “”No hardware interruption to report ••• “” Jean-Yves Cauchois reports no down time on either CRAY X-MP system at EDF. Christian Borel reports 100-percent availability for both systems at CEA. From West Germany Werner Nipken comments: “”Have had a first meeting with the customer. It is a great pleasure to plan the first Y-MP installation in Europe.”” Manfred Robenek reports he “”Attended the DS40 training class and high temp solder class in C.F.”” and “”Visited the ‘Central Buffer Warehouse’ at Unidata in Frankfurt with Jon Crandall to check for environmental conditions and organization of spare equipment … “” Other German news: “”Olaf Pierza finished his Cray-2 training in C.F. Horst Felske just started his Cray-2 training. . . New hire, Gerhard Bronold, started on July 1 with his XMP training in C.F. H. J. Bohnstedt as District Support West announced.”” Tony Hatton in the UK says, “”Ken Taylor and Nick Morss are going to Korea to watch the Olympics (and do something with a Cray-2, I think?).”” Jan Eirik Rovde at the SINTEF site in Norway had problems due to thunderstorms.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-12, NOVEMBER IN THE FIELD,”The EIC Narratives reveal over half of the thirteen systems in West Germany operating at 100 percent availability to the customers during the month. From Texaco Edward Liu notes a worthwhile activity: If ••• we were involved in a team effort with DEC, IBM and STC to solve several peripheral-related problems. . • . After a great deal of head scratching, it was determined that the paddle boards had been installed in the incorrect slots in the VAX mass bus by the DEC engineer. • . . Customer indicated he was favorably ~ressed at our cooperative approach to solving these problems. Rather than satisfying ourselves that they did not originate in our equipment and then sitting back and ‘pointing the finger’ at the other vendors, we continued to work with them until final resolution of the problem.”” Jim Reed reports a 100 percent month for CRAY-2 Serial 2015 at Martin-NTB: “”The first major demonstrations were done for high ranking officials from the 14th through the 18th. A great deal of work by software prople went into this demo right up until showt~. From all indications the exhibition went extremely well with min~l problems . . things are IOOving along just fine here in Colorado Springs.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-19, MORE FROM THE NOVEMBER FIELD REPORTS,”Werner Schwarz with Serial 2019 at 1 ‘Ecole Poly technique in Lausanne, Switzerland: “”On the 22nd and 23rd we had open door. First we got the presse, then the public, nearly 200 people went through the computer roam but fortunately we did not get any ESD problem! On the 23rd potential customers were invited to assist with same very interesting graphic derronstrations. It was a big success! • . • Customer is proud of his new CRAY-2.”” Fred Miller at the University of California at Berkeley reports Serial 301 “”ran very well • • . During the month the analysts successfully upgraded Unicos Operating System fran 3.0 to the 4.0 version. To date there have been no software system crashes. There was one bug that affected us upon deadstarting the system but has now been corrected by one of our analysts.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-13, AL DOES IT AGAIN,”Formal Notice of Allowance of our U.S. Patent Application for COMPUTER VECTOR MULTIPROCESSOR CONTROL WITH MULTIPLE ACCESS MEMORY AND PRIORITY CONFLICT RESOLUTION METHOD has been received. Al Schiffleger of Development, chief logic design engineer, is the inventor. Good work, AI!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-27,” “”ALSO KNOWN. AS THE “”””MUSEUM”””””””,”A productive meeting of the Exhibition Center steering committee was held at Riverside Project July 18, with these attending: Janet Robidoux, Eric Lindahl, Ray Thul, John Sullivan, Chris Gordon, Jim Mandelert, Lorelei Henneman, Gene Neumann, Susan McLeod, Skip August, Jerry Simpson, and Edna Bunn. An exciting imminent acquisition is a CDC 6500 system; the plug is being pulled on it today at Purdue University. That vintage of punched card deck is urgently desired to give credibility to the display–systems software such as operating system, assemblers, compilers. Original CRAY-l and 7600 punched card decks would also be of interest. Hold onto them and let Chris Gordon, extension 1589, know of their availability.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-28, For Leadership,”Dennis Aney, Production Manager, Rice Lake Steve Ashley, Program Manager, Manufacturing Delores Brun, Lead, Wiring Brian Schneider, Director, Systems Paul Schroeder, Sr. R&D Engineer, Printed Circuits For Innovation Terry Jacobson, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Al Schiffleger, Chief Logic Design Engineer, Development Jim Sundet, Director of Engineering, Runkel Building Dan Mansur, Sr. I.C. Engineer, and Joe Christensen, Lab Engineer, Development “

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, COMPUTER SCIENCE OFFERED IN-HOUSE,UW-Eau Claire plans to offer two computer science courses at Cray Research next semester: CS 155 Introduction to Programming and Problem-Solving and CS 390 Operating Systems. CS 155 will be taught using C programming language (not Pascal as in the past) and will serve as an Introductory C course. Both classes will start in late February; registration will begin in January. Anyone interested should call Sandy McFadden at extension 1684.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-25, NEW IN THE NEW YEAR,”The following are employees who have joined Cray Research this month: George Weimer, buyer; Pam Wheeler and Brian Harms, computer operators; Julie Court, program/analyst; Julie Luedtke, Sandra Lulloff, and Michael Fleischer, IC process technicians; and Thomas Heilmann, test engineer. Welcome, All!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-15, ENGINEERS: TURNING IDEAS INTO REALITY,”This is the theme of National Engineers Week, next week, February 18-24, the 40th anniversary observance. Cray Research salutes, commends, and thanks its force of hundreds of engineers to whom so much is owed. A number of these employee engineers will be visiting schools in the near future to inspire youngsters, both girls and boys, to consider the opportunities in engineering for making a real contribution to the quality of life for people everywhere and for personal fulfillment. Says President Bush: “”. . . your profession is essential to progress. By turning theoretical concepts into practical realities, engineers help to sustain America’s economic growth and prosperity •..• ‘engineering provides immeasurable benefits to all of us. I am particularly pleased that the National Engineers Week Committee is going to be enlisting the support of engineers across America in giving special emphasis to the need for improved mathematics and science education. Our young people must be well trained in these subjects if we are to maintain a leading role in science, technology, and the world marketplace. You have my wholehearted support in this worthwhile effort.”” E. Walter LeFevre, National Society of Professional Engineers: “”It is up to this nation’s engineers to ensure a strong technological future for the good of the country. To do that we must intrigue and inspire this nation’s business and government leaders, students and teachers.”” John F. Welch, Jr., General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO: “”To whom then, is it left to see that American innovation is dynamic enough, and American productivity growth sufficiently rapid, to win in world markets? In large measure it is the engineer, and in that context America needs to see the profession as the bodyguard of its standard of living. If it does; if the country perceives the nexus between a powerful engineering base and our very way of life, educational and motivational programs that will preserve and nurture that base will be more forthcoming.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, STOUT APPLIED MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE,”Cray Research is one of the sponsors, and Debra Andersen of Development was one of the speakers at this annual event, held April 4-5; her subject, “”Life as a CAD Engineer.”” Stanley-Boyd was among the fifteen high schools taking part in the computer contest, the winner, Port Washington. Twentyfour Wisconsin and Minnesota schools participated in the Math Quiz Bowl.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, RECENT HIRINGS,”A welcome to Michael Bethke, drafter, and a welcome back to Ed Krumbiegel, CAD engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-07, LAWN MOWER INJURIES,”Tips to make your summer safer, from the Mayo Clinic Health Letter for May: “”Think about safety and use common sense when operating your lawn mower. Most importantly, do not tamper with your lawn mower’s automatic shut-off mechanism. Always wear shoes, not sandals or thongs, when cutting your grass. Do not allow young children to operate or ride on power mowers. Keep adults, children and pets a safe distance away. ‘ “” .•. injuries range from lacerations caused by flying debris to accidental amputations. . . . Men and boys suffer 80 percent of all such injuries. • . . rotary lawn mowers are capable of causing severe injury two ways: by direct contact or by turning loose stones, sticks or other debris into potentially lethal projectiles. . • . Eye injuries are common.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-07, Y-MP TO UK,”Shipment of Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP8 supercomputer to the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts this week marks fourteen years of association with our first European customer. ECMWF came into being on November 1, 1975. The cooperative venture had fifteen member nations initially; now grown to eighteen. A letter dated 9th March, 1976, to Seymour from J. LaBrousse, Head of Operations, Bracknell, England, says: “”We are planning to issue our request for proposal for the systan in the middle of this year and we would like to make contact with a representative of your company in order to exchange ideas and information on configurations, front-ends and other sub-systans, as well as the associated operating systan interfaces.”” The result was ECMWF’s acquisition of Serial 1 CRAY-IB system, with half a million words of memory, late in 1977. Serial 1, first shipped to Los Alamos in March 1976, was replaced at LASL by Serial 4 CRAY-IA, which added SECDED (single error correction, double error detection). Serial 1, interim to Serial 9 CRAY-IA delivered to ECMWF in 1978, was still going strong when it was retired last year for the Museum. (Forty-five cartons of miscellaneous equipment accompanied Serial 1 to ECMWF, including computer stuff like a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, and pocket knife~-no Leinie’s.) For comparison, Serial 1039 CRAY Y-MP supercomputer has eight processors and 64-million words of memory. Several Cray Research computer systems have been installed at ECMWF over the years. It is gratifying to be chosen once again, over stiff competition.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-28, TRE NEW VP OF MFG,”Lou Saye is operating in a new job in a new location. Those of us who have worked with him since he joined up in the fall of 1976 are proud of this recognition of his accomplishments. Milwaukee was Lou’s home, and he graduated from UW-Madison with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He then went to work for General Dynamics in San Diego, and received a Masters from the U. of California. He also acquired a wife, Kathy, and before long there were three little Sayes. Tony, Dave, and Diana are now all attending UW-Madison, and Lou has to admit to forty something. On coming- to this area, the Sayes found the best place to build a home was just north of Jim Falls. They did basically build it themselves, wi th a “”lot of help fran the kids.”” A swampy wilderness retreat turned into a beautiful park (there was at least one interesting encounter with a bear). Lou’s first assignment with Cray Research was working third shift checking out early CRAY-l systans. He had this duty for a year and a half at the Hallie Lab. When the Company rroved into the great big new building on Lowater Road (present Systems), Lou resumed engineering activities. As our product matured, greater reliability was demanded by customers. Lou led a reliability and quality group that perfoTImedsuperbly in accomplishing this objective. MIT! was increased tenfold. On the side Lou supervised design and construction of the Product Support building. More recently he has been involved in CRAY Y-MP system enhancements. The new job is a challenge, says Lou, but he has a great organization to work with, and valuable experience behind him.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-13, NEW·EMPLOYEES,”Welcome Gil Cimpl, systems engineer; Joseph Honnold, manufacturing engineer; and Randall Wathke, production machinist, who were hired September 10.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-11, FROM SCD COMPUTING NEWS,”””Shavano,”” without a capital s, is what the National Center for Atmospheric Research has named its CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. The Scientific Computing Division NEWS for July/August devotes most of its fifty pages to the Y-MP: “”The cover graphic shows the characteristic V-shaped configuration of shavano, NCAR I S new CRAY Y-MP8/864. Its footprint resembles the mythical thunderbird with outstretched wings. “”I t ‘s pretty easy to spot the arrival of a Cray. An engineering feat in i tsel f, it takes two cannercial moving vans, a crane, plus a pack of brawny workers fran Duffy Crane and Hauling to hoist and lower all five tons of it through an opening in the roof into the computer roam of the Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado ••.. sen Operations Group head Bob Niffenegger donned his satin Cray baseball jacket and cap for good luck • • • Sally Haerer, SCI) I S Consulting Group head, showed up for work wearing her camera and a telephoto lens. ‘I used to work for Cray, but I never saw one of these things delivered,’ she explained . . • The CRAY Y-MP8/864 is what canputer pundits call ‘big iron ‘–the top-of-theline model fram Cray Research, Inc., who manufacture the majority of the “”Norld’s supercomputers. . . . A peak performance rate of over one billion floating-point operations per second has been measured on one of NCAR’s ocean climate models when all eight processors were operating in parallel.”” The Software News section featured: “”CRAYFISHPAK, a vectorized library with the Helrnholz equation-solving functionality of FISHPAK, is now available on shavano.”” Th’e Y-MP is up and running! Cray Research, Inc., treated NCAR staff to a party in celebration of the Y-MP’s acceptance. SCD director Bill Buzbee (right) cuts some cake for Diana Wright, the NCAR on-site analyst from eray; Mike Wilhelm, vice president of Cray Americas; and Rick Hill, the Cray account manager. (Photo by Bob Bumpas.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-10, LEARN UNICOS,”A Beginner’s UNICOS course, taught by the Training Group of Eagan, is scheduled for February 4-7 at Tech Ops. February 4 is reserved for those who have never logged on to a system or are not familiar with UNIX or UNICOS operating systems. The actual UNICOS classes will be held February 5-7. Facilities allow for 16 attendees, allocated first-come firstserved. See receptionist for registration form. Manuals may be obtained through these forms even though you do not attend the classes.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-12, FOR INNOVATION,”Wei Hsu, senior software engineer, Development Nick Krajewski, chief design engineer, Technology Group Denise Smith, production supervisor, Manufacturing On Monsanto Team: Dave Dalton, senior international technical support engineer, and Bob Cutler, associate programmer analyst, Tech Ops Sabbatical winners are Nick Krajewski and Derek Robb.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-12, FOR LEADERSHIP,”Jeff Bloom, senior logic design engineer, Development Mike Knudsen, IC packaging manager, Development Derek Robb, product director, Chippewa Administration Vertical Operations Team: Larry Dahl, senior director; Rich Cornell, senior HR specialist; Karen Supple, HR specialist; Tom Menard, production manager; and Dave Fisher, quality assurance engineer

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-01-25, FOR INCOME TAX PURPOSES,”Here are the stock prices applicable to the stock purchase plan since its inception in 1981:       Offering PriceAs of 1/1    Alternate12/31    Employees’ Cost85% of Lower

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-19, URGENT,”If you have not yet received your 1986 1099 form from Norwest for interest earned on your Stock Purchase Investment Plan (SPIP), please call one of these numbers to report it: 612-372-8677 Brenda Haridy 612-372-9363 Jackie Bokemper or 612-372-8720 Kevin Weiss Be prepared to give your name, social security number, and complete address. You must also identify yourself as a member of Cray’s Stock Purchase Plan.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-07, STOCK ENROLLMENT DEADLINE,”Tomorrow, May 8, is the last day to enroll in the 1987-88 Stock Purchase Plan. Participants in the 1986-87 Plan Year must return their purchase or withdrawal forms also by Friday, May 8.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-11, STOCK PURCHASE PLAN PRICE,”Employees enrolled in the 1986-87 Stock Purchase Plan, which ended May 31, will purchase stock at $78.625 per share. This is 85 percent of the market price on June 1, 1986–the lower of the June 1, 1986, price and the May 31, 1987, price. Certificates, as well as cash balance checks and total withdrawal checks, will be mailed to your homes by June 30.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-18, FOR FUTURE REFERENCE,”This information is for employees who have enrolled in the 1987-88 Stock Purchase Plan. The closing market price on June 1, 1987, was $98 per share. Therefore, unless the May 31, 1988, price is lower, your purchase price next year will be $83.30 a share (85 percent of $98). Confirmation notices showing your maximum purchasable shares are being distributed this week. If you have any questions, see your H.R. representative.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, CHANGE IN STOCK PURCHASE PLAN INFORMATION MEETING,”The mini benefit session on the Stock Purchase Investment Plan scheduled for May 2 in Manufacturing has been changed to Tuesday, May 3, 4:30-5:30.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-01, BEFORE THE FALL,”The greatest drama of 1929 was the stock market crash in October, but Dave Froehlich of Manufacturing has other interesting news of that year–a bound collection ofThe. New YOltk. T-i..mufor August 1-15, 1929. Sample headline: “”Bigamist Must Support Both His Families on Salary of $50 a Week or Go to Sing Sing.”” The flight around the world of the Graf Zeppelin was given lots of space. Commander Richard Byrd was at Little America in Antarctica mapping a polar flight. Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his new bride visited President and Mrs. Hoover at their vacation home. Planes and flying were very big news. Amelia Earhart was featured. An endurance record of l7~ days in the air was set by a couple in a Curtiss Robin over St. Louis (it held only three). Thomas Edison was offering a scholarship to the brightest boy in America, the judges to include Lindbergh, George Eastman, and Henry Ford. Talking pictures were new and exci t ing, al though Edison said, “”People will tire of talkies.”” Greta Garbo was appearing in films and Eddie Cantor on the stage. In sports: “”Babe Ruth drives fungo 447 feet in batting practice. Gehrig gets 26th homer in Yankees’ win over Chicago White Sox.”” Chrysler cars started at $985 for the business coupe. Men’s suits with two pairs of pants were $63. Cruises to California via the Panama Canal were popular; cost $350 for 13 days. Nicaragua was in the news. The U.S. had just supervised a peaceable election which it was hoped would bring stability to that troubled country. “”London, Aug. l–George Bernard Shaw has refused to contribute to the fund to restore St. Mary’s Church in Youghal Ireland which was Sir Walter Raleigh’s church. The carmittee in charge of the project has received fran Mr. Shaw a postcard bearing his photograph. On the back was written: ‘As you may see by my expression I do not care twopence about your church. You had better sell it to America where Raleigh, Spenser and Cromwell are more popular than they are ever likely to be in Cork.’ The carmittee expect to get money fran Mr. Shaw anyway, by offering this postcard to the highest bidder.”””^

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-16, RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLUS,”A reminder for any employee who wishes to attend one of the optional meetings on the change from the Deferred Profit Sharing to the Retirement Savings Plus plan: Please complete the form included in your packet, or call Becky Bieno or Sherry Lowater at extension 2409. Only the meetings that are signed up for will be held. In addition to the above meetings, the opportunity is offered to view a video presentation by Peregrine Capital Management, the new Aggressive Stock Fund managers. To see this tape, check with the H.R. rep in your building.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, A BENEFIT,”One of the many benefits of working for Cray Research is the opportunity to invest in the Company stock at low cost through payroll deduction and without broker fee. The employee cost is 85 percent of market value on either June 1, 1989, or May 31, 1990–whichever is lower. Since inception of the stock purchase plan in 1981, from 50 to 70 percent of employees have participated. Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the 1989-90 Plan. Tomorrow is also the last day to turn in Purchase or Withdrawal Forms for the 1988-89 Plan Year.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, STOCK PURCHASE PLAN PACKET,”In some of the 1990-91 Stock Purchase Investment Plan Enrollment Packets the last page is a duplicate of the previous one. The last page in the packet should be an “”Important Notice”” regarding withdrawal procedures for the 1990-91 SPIP. Please check your packet to be sure the last page is not a duplicate. If it is, request a correct copy from your HR representative.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, LAST CHANCE,”Tomorrow, May 4, is the last day to submit your 1989-90 stock purchase plan year decision and your 1990-91 enrollment form. None accepted after May 4.”^

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-02, STOCK PURCHASE PLANS,”Tomorrow, Friday, May 3, is the last day to turn in the 1990-91 purchase or withdraw decision and also to enroll in the 1991-92 Plan year.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-01-25, KEYNOTE SPE,”Howard Bellman Secretary of Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations Career planning; job secking skills; money management; personal and family development; new technologies; understanding computers; and small business-self employment. Individual career counseling available by appointment. Approved Child Care Available — Call To Arrange FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 836-3172 Co-sponsored by WEAU-TV & area educational & service agencies Supporting organizations include: UW-EC. UW-Stout. NSP. Job Service. District One Technical Institute Private Industry Council, Career Development Center “”Sometimes, it seems to me the old Romans did just as well studying the entrails of a sacrificial goat.”” ight @ 1984 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Copying without fee is permitted provided that the re not made or distributed for direct commercial and credit to the source is given. Abstracting with credit is permitted. Communications of the ACM November 1984 Volume 27 Number 11 

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-01-25, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEES,”Stuart Lenz, programmer/analyst; Diane Lindenfelser, secretary, To Mendota: and Cheri Dowell, intern. Sarah Schindler, Dang Yang, Dana Boos, and Luella Benish, To Chippewa: module assemblers, and Katie Kroll, documentation specialist.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-01-25, WORKSHOP,”Career planning; job seeking skills; money management; personal and family development; new technologies; understanding computers; and small business-self employment. Individual career counseling available by appointment. Approved Child Care Available — Call To Arrange FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 836-3172 Co-sponsored by WEAU-TV 3x & area educational & service agencies Supporting organizations include UW-EC. UW-Stout. NSP. Job Service. District One Technical Institute. Private Industry Council. Caroer right @ 1984 by the Association for Computing Machinery, copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial and credit to the source is given. Abstracting antage with credit is permitted. Communications of the ACM November 1984 Volume 27 Number 11 “”Sometimes, it seems to me the old Romans did just as well studying the entrails of a sacrificial goat.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-11-14, AN APPEAL FROM KINSHIP OF EAU CLAIRE,”””Kinship is a program … which provides a positive, mature adult role model for children from single parent families or families with special needs. Research and our experience has shown that one person can make all the difference in the life of a child. . Unfortunately, there are many children who have asked for our help but are faced with a wait of a year or more due to a shortage of male volunteers. Kinship is currently recruiting men and couples who would be willing to spend time each week with a boy who needs a positive adult role model.”” Call or write Kinship, 1300 First Avenue, Eau Claire, WI 54703; 835-0161. Dear Ann Landers: My father died after a lO-month bout with cancer. In those 10 months several events occurred that inspired me to write “”RULES TO VISIT BY.”” I hope you will share them with your readers. If doesn’t take a lot of effort to give a sick person a lift. An old friend sent my father postcards every few weeks that said simply, “”I am thinking of you.”” That meant more to him than anything else. Sign me – BEF.1’~ ‘rffERE AND KNOW. ANYWHERE. USA “”W hat I don’t like about chess is the ‘lJ.:ay you ha7.,’e to sit and pretend to think,'”” In order to plan for next semester’s Pre-Technical Math classes at the Chippewa Falls vocational School, the Human Resources Department would like you to fill out the survey below and return to Candace Louviere, systems Building, by November 22. Filling out the survey does not commit you nor register you for the class. It will help District One schedule classes and instructors to meet our needs. The Pre-Technical Math class is approximately 80 hours of instruction in the traditional classroom method. It covers math (algebra, trigonometry, vectors, transposition of formulas), and electronics terminology, Ohms Law, and an introduction to the computer. It will prepare employees for the Interactive video Electronics training program. Depending on math background, an employee may not need to take the Pre-Technical Math class to attend the Interactive Video program. If an employee has a good background in algebra and trigonometry there probably is not a need to take this class. The purpose of the class is to brush up math skills so that students will be successful when they work on their own in the Interactive Video Program. Classes would start the week of January 13 and run through May 22. Class length would be two 2-hour classes per week. The classes would be on employee time. Below are possible times. Check the one you would register for:”

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-11-14, MATCHMAKING BY COMPUTER (COMPANY)?,Kent Larson of Advanced Research and Pam Spaeth of Hallie Lab were married on October 19. Congratulations and best wishes!

CRAY_CHIPS-1985-11-14, MENDOTA HEIGHTS WELCOMES NEW EMPLOYEES,”John Nielsen and Christine Kim are programmer/analysts who have just come aboard. Christi Albertson is a new receptionist; Jodi Waasdorp, clerktypist; and Richard Franta, software training manager. Joining us in Chippewa this week are drafters Michael Poppy and Terry Boyea. Greetings!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-10, GREETINGS TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”Recent new hires to Chippewa Operations: James Jacobs, graphics specialist; Marvin Bausman, component engineer; Jeff Glanzman, drafter; Thomas Eder, security guard; Jack Marlette, applications programmer; and Brad Bartilson, mechanical engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-10, RANDOM EXCESS,”A volunteer: Kevin McCalib of Tech Ops assists the Dolphin Program which enables handicapped children to participate in swimming and other activities at the Y . . . A prizewinner: Cathy Hable, daughter of Don Hable of Development, received a 1986 Award for Excellence in Language Study (Spanish) from UW-Whitewater.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-31, GOOD LUCK  LIL BIRDIES,”The killdeer family has gone, a good sign. If a sad fate had been met by the little ones, the parents would have stayed around awhile in mourning, as they did last year. So somehow they must have got those babies off the roof and into a more sheltered environment, although what they had to fly with was not apparent. All that remains is the one unhatched egg among the pebbles. I wonder if it might explode one day in the heat; that would be interesting. Or perhaps eons from now, when the ruins of what was a very important industry in the late 20th century are discovered, a fossil will surface–egg-shaped. What was an egg? Oh, you mean like a thunder egg? Does it have somethiGg inside? Yes, it has a golden ball inside. Then it is a thunder egg! No, thunder eggs were from an even earlier time; these were laid by birds. Birds? What were birds? climates are changing, the nwnmaIs are taking over and we all have a brainabout thesize ofa walnut.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-31, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to Karen Magee, applications engineer; Brian Krzanich and Steve Smetana, I.C. engineers; Jonnie Turner, I.C. fabrication; Terry Andersen, mechanical installation; and Paul Adams, electronics technician.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-14, A LITTLE BOY NEEDS BLOOD,”Eleven-month-old Andy Kroll, son of Katie Kroll of Tech Ops, will have open-heart surgery September 3. Type 0 positive blood will be accepted the week of August 25 at the Blood Center in St. Paul and banked for Andy’s surgery. Are there any employees willing to make this trip and donation? Call Katie at extension 4310.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-14, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Many new faces have appeared at Mendota Heights over the past two months: Jennifer Gross and Sheryll Dieter, secretaries; Maureen Krueger, Neale Hirsh, Fritz Ehlers, Peter Ketcham, William Kamp, Dennis Parker, Mark Reinhardt, Jong-Chl Liu, David Becker, Donald Mengel, Frank Barriuso, Thomas Fowler, David Miller, Brent Knight, and David DeHerder, program/analysts; Kevin Ryan and Ray MacKenzie, technical writers; Jim Holewinski, computer operator; Dale Alexander, contract consultant; Janis Gustafson, software instructor, Mark Steele, distribution clerk; Paul Murphy, facilities maintenance; Leslie Kroll, receptionist; Mark Conty, software coordinator; Doug Sperle, building attendant; and Brian Knippel, Alan Fisch, Stefanie Knutson, Mark Cruciani, Todd Blachowiak, Kent Zoya, Joel Papa, John Ahnert, Matthew Denman, Jerry Udy, Laraine Gerdes, and Roman Saucedo, summer interns. In Chippewa Falls we have added Barb Powers,H.R.administrator; Anne Brunson, process engineer; Don Jankord, electronics technician; Dean Chapman, programmer; Richard Supple, security guard; and Randy Hiekel, inventory clerk.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-14, WEDDING BELLES,Best wishes to our brides (all in Wiring) and congratulations to their grooms: Jamie Colliver was married to Jan Vasseur on June 28; Mary Kelly to Jeff Erbs on July 3; and Rita Sedlacek to Rick Erickson on July 5.

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-21, A THANK YOU,”Dennis Abraham of Mendota Heights wants to thank everyone for the flowers, your thoughts and prayers–they helped a lot. Dennis and his wife lost their baby girl July 16.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-21, WELCOME TO CHIPPEWA,”New employees Debra Croker, receptionist, and Ray Conrad, engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-21, WISCONSIN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL PROJECT  INC.,”The project is to build a Vietnam Veterans Memorial near Neillsville. One hundred acres was purchased in January for the purpose, and the design chosen in June. “”Bike-A-Thon ’86″” is on right now, August 20-24, to raise money for the Memorial. The Red Group was to start in Hudson and reach Eau Claire Saturday, August 23; then on to Osseo and Neillsville, arriving at the memorial site on Sunday at 1 pm. Are you a cyclist who would take part in this event for a worthy cause? Would you make a money pledge? Contact Sheryl Tate at Advanced Research, extension 813, for more particulars.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-28, AUGUST WEDDINGS,”Congratulations to our guards Roger Wilczek and Jon Mathwig on their recent marriages: Roger and Carol were married August 2; John and Kim, August 9. Dave Hanson of Printed Circuits took his bride, Jennifer, also on August 9.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-08-28, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”Recent new hires are electronics technicians Stanley Demotts, Roger Lutz, and Patrick Gagner; Bruce Steger, software engineer; Michael Sandahl, director, Quality/Reliability; and Therese Schutte, mechanical technician.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-09-04, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to James Spellmire, assistant controller; Josef Meier, CAD technician; and Phuong Vu, applications engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-09-04, PEACE CHILV,”Performing for the first t~ in the United States is a cast of American and Soviet children in the musical fantasy,PEACE CHILV,at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. The proudest father at Cray Research is Ron Clayton of Component Engineering whose daughter, Danielle (Dani) , is singing in the choir. The dates are September 20 and 21 (Saturday and Sunday) for the play. A concert being given in conjunction withPEACE CHILVfeatures The Stas Namin Rock Band and Ludmilla Sentchina. Ron said a great departure fran the usual tours of perfonming Russian professionals, always accanpanied by Soviet officials, is that the Russian children will have only their parents along–apparently entirely free to mix with the Americans. “

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CRAY_CHIPS-1986-09-18, CHILD CARE ALTERNATIVES,”Human Resources has had printed a handy booklet listing some of the day-care centers in Chippewa Falls, Cadott, Eau Claire, and Rice Lake. If you have need of such service, request a booklet from your H.R. representative.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-09-25, WELCOME!,”To new employees Greg Thorson, design engineer; Peter Kao, software engineer; Scott Glenna, CAD layout technician; and Mary Pieterick, computer operator.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-10-02, MINNESOTA HATS OFF TO THEE,”The July-August issue of the U of M Alumni Association publication carried a wonderful Time Line. Some excerpts: 1851: School opens with 20 students and tuition rates of $4, $5, and $6 a quarter. 1858: The U’s first building opens, and closes six months later for economic reasons and the threat of the Civil War. “”Old Main becomes a refuge for squatters, turkeys, and wood splitters … “” 1867: The U sells 15,000 acres of land to pay its debts and reopens with one student. By year end 56 men and 16 women are enrolled. 1873: First two graduates. 1880: First master’s is awarded. 1888: The School of Agriculture–the first of its kind in the world–is established; the first doctorate is awarded. 1890: Enrollment over 1000; buildings number seven. 1900: Football team undefeated. 1902: Emil Oberhoffer teaches, and helps found the Minneapolis Symphony. 1904: Old Main is destroyed by fire. 1905: The U receives $114,000 to establish a hospital, the first university facility combining teaching, research, and public service. 1909: The School of Nursing is established, the first on a university campus. 1911: The football team is Midwest champ. 1913: Extension Division created, offering night classes and correspondence courses. 1929: Northrop Memorial Auditorium opens. 1937: The first calf in the country born through artificial insemination is delivered on the St. Paul campus. 1939: Ernest Lawrence, a 1923 graduate, wins the Nobel Prize in physics for developing the cyclotron and research on atomic structures. 1940: Professor Alfred Nier establishes that U-235 is responsible for slow fission in uranium. 1941: Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prizewinner, graduates; and Bruce Smith wins the Heisman Trophy. 1954: Dr. Lillehei performs first open-heart surgery. 1955: Harrison Salisbury and Eric Sevareid receive the Outstanding Achievement Award for distinguished alumni. 1956: Walter Brattain et al win the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the transistor. (W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen receive a second Nobel in 1972, making a total of 12 awarded to U alumni or faculty.) 1958: First acreage acquired for Arboretum. 1961: Melvin Calvin wins Nobel Prize in chemistry. 1962: Rose Bowl win over UCLA. 1975: Music professor Dominick Argento wins Pulitzer Prize. 1977: Grad and astronaut Deke Slayton is a pilot for theApollo-Soyuzmission. 1977: The 1000th kidney transplant is performed at U Hospital. 1979: The MEIS Center is founded. 1980: The U is selected as home for the Charles Babbage Institute. 1981: The first artificial pancreas, developed by U faculty, is used by a diabetic.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-10-02, SPECIAL NOTE ON KINSHIP,”Kinship is one of the services receiving support through the United Way. Though funding is important, volunteers are essential. Cray Research salutes its employee volunteers in Kinship: Chris Nesja, Ben Holzem, David Duxstad, John Higgins, and Curt Swanson. Nat ional Kinship Week was celebrated last week:”” • addressing the special needs of many children from single-parent homes. The pr~ goal in Kinship is the one-toone friendship between a volunteer and a child. Volunteers give of themselves in a way that offers support and understanding, aiding the child’s positive growth and development. “”Once assigned a child, the volunteer shares in sane activity interesting to both . . . . In most cases it is not necessary to set aside t~ to spend with a child, but s~ly include them in those activities that are normal for you. Mutual interests, age, location, and hobbies are strong factors taken into consideration when making ‘matches’ between volunteers and children. “”Kinship serves children and handicapped adults throughout Chippewa County; currently we have over 40 on our waiting list. If you feel you would be able to spend a few hours once a week with one of these, contact the Kinship office at 723-0881.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-10-16, NEW FACES,”Welcome to new employees John Meyer, documentation technician; Bill Petefish, IC process Engineer; and Nancy Kaeding, receptionist.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-10-23, A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION,”October 9 was special for two Chippewa employees because on that date they became U.S. citizens. John Hoefnagels was born in the Netherlands and came to the U.S. with his parents at the age of four. His father, since retired, was an employee of the Dutch Embassy in Washington, DC. John now makes his home in Engineering! Joel Garcia-Trevino came from Mexico to work for Cray Research in Development. He says he is now a “”gringo.”” Incidentally, Joel is not pronounced as in “”Joel Grey”” but as “”Hoyle”” in “”according to Hoyle.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-06, By MEG Cox,”Staff Reporter ofTHE W AU. STREJo;T JOURNAL NEW YORK – It’s no wonder oboe players have a reputation for being the curmudgeons of the orchestra. You would be nasty, too, if your instrument were commonly called “”an ill wind that nobody blows good.”” The oboe is devilishly difficult to play and has. a limited solo repertOire. It dem~nds laborto~s hours preparing reeds, the mch-long pIeces of cane that create the instrument’s sound. Hernias are just one of the ills that oboists are heir to.””Death ray, fiddlesticks.’ Why, it doesn’t even slow them up.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-06, CRAY’S CUPBOARD FOR PASTORS’ PANTRY,”This is the theme for the Thanksgiving food drive led by the Charitable Contributions ~ mi ttee, which began this week and runs through Friday, November 21. All food collected will go to the Chippewa Area Clergy Conference food pantry. Containers are set up in each facility for donations. Food donated should be commercially prepared (health regulations prevent acceptance of hane-canned food) and includes all canned goods (fruits, vegetables, soups, baby food, juices, meats, meals-in-a-can) and dry staples (cereals, powdered milk, jello, puddings, cake mixes, dried potatoes, macaroni-and-cheese, and other pasta). All donations will be matched, $1 per pound, from the Cray Research matching gifts progrrun. Donations of lOOney may be made to any CCC member. Last year Cray employees donated over 1000 pounds of food, which, along with cash donations and the Canpany match, fed a lot of hungry people. But the problem of hunger has not been solved; the need is still there. So let’s each open up our cupboards and help stock the pastors’ pantry. DALE SCHIMMEL”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-06, LOVERS’ KNOTS,”Congratulations and best wishes to our newlyweds: Becky Yamriska of Product Support, who married Tom Thoreson October 18, and Lillian Ricciardi of Product Support and Joe Le-Cointe of Manufacturing who tied the knot October 25.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-13, EXTENDED EMPLOYEE BENEFITS,”The Employee Relations program, which has provided rebates for a portion of membership fees to the Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley Family YMCA’s and Olympic Center in Rice Lake, has been expanded to include the Pinetree Racquetball Club in Chippewa Falls, the Eau Claire Athletic Club, Body Dynamics in Eau Claire, and the Rice Lake Health Club. Any employee who works as much as 20 hours per week is eligible for a 25 percent reimbursement on membership fee, up to $60 per year. For more information or to apply for a reimbursement, contact Becky Bieno in Manufacturing or Judy Snobl, Rice Lake. WELCOME to Gary Johnson, maint. technician, new employee as of November 10.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-20, NOVEMBER NUPTIALS,”Congratulations to Eric Dewitz, I.C. Fabrication, and his new bride, Kalynn, who were married November 15.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-20, SOMETHING TO STAY UP FOR,”””European Journal,”” the Wisconsin Public TV program we’ve sponsored this year is not shown until 11:30 pm on Thursdays. A reason I’ll be staying up to c~tch it is the scheduled appearance of Laura Runkel. You would rightly guess this is Harry’s daughter (and Sherry Isham’s sister), but you probably wouldn’t know Laura worked for Cray Research in its veriest infancy in 1972. Laura has been living in Heidelberg, West Germany, for the past several years, studying at the University–biochemistry, specifically in the genetic area.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-12-04, BABY DOLLS,”Little girls were the thing on November 20 when daughters were born to Lori Cain, Wiring, and husband Micheal (Stephanie Jean) and Jim Kohn of Software Development and his wife, Connie (Amanda Rose).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-12-04, UPDATE ON GARY,”Jerry Fellenz visited Gary Gilchrist at Sacred Heart the day before Thanksgiving. Family members only are supposed to be admitted at present, but he is soon to be moved from a private room to the therapy ward where he can have visitors. Gary was in excellent spirits and hopeful of recovery. He has some movement and feeling in the upper body; however, the prognosis is not good. Poor Denise Gilchrist is quite worn out between trips to the hospital and three small children, the youngest just a baby. (It is regrettable to have to add that someone stole $20 intended for a fund for the Gilchrists–hard to believe of a Cray Research employee.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-12-04, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEE,”Troy Bystrom, engineering writer, Hardware Publications.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-12-18, A HAPPY CHRISTMAS FAMILY,”Marty DeMoe, speaking for the Modules department, thanks everyone who supported the raffle to make a Merry Christmas for a family in need. Here are the lucky winners, who may pick up their prizes in Modules: WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES Osman Akcasu, device engineer, and John Bresina, security guard.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-12-18, ANNOUNCING A WEDDING,”Congratulations to the new bride and groom, Karen Conrad of IC Test and Mike Kramschuster, who were married on December 6.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-08, EAGLE REPORT,”Remember the Eagle Nest adoption program we supported? In May it was confirmed that a pair was inhabiting our nest in Marinette County. On June 11 a ground team visited the site and discovered an eaglet. It was in good condition and successfully banded. I have a picture of our beautiful baby eagle! Stop in to see it. An unhatched egg was also found and taken for analysis. The report on the program was very exciting: “”For ·the first time since our surveys began, Wisconsin’s bald eagles produced over 300 young.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-08, EMPLOYEE SUFFERS HEART ATTACK,”Clarence Maloney, guard at the Runkel Building, was stricken on December 28. On January 1 he underwent surgery for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Last Monday his son and our employee at Advanced Research, Mark, reported him out of intensive care and doing well.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-08, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”James Kruchowski, electrical engineer, and David Shelby, security guard, started December 22. On January 5 the following were added: David Barkai, applications engineer; Paul Frank,systems engineer; Larry Lane, machinist; Jay Young,drafter; and Tom Cooley, systems technician.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-15, ANNOUNCING,”A baby girl! Born to Sue Holbrook of Wiring and her husband, Greg: Chelsae Emma; on January 7. A baby boy! Matthew James, born on January 8 to Debra Peacock of Modules and her husband, Dan.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-15, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”William Schrieber, quality assurance manager; Suellen Geske, office systems analyst; Susan Turri, test engineer; Charles Manney, buyer; and David Mayer, mechanical technician.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-22, LIFESAVER TAGS,”We have secured a quantity of tags to identify a child, the blood type and doctor, and give parent’s consent for emergency treatment. The tag can be attached to a shoe or sewn into a piece of clothing. Contact Barb Walters in Manufacturing, extension 2130, if you would like tags for your children. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-22, TWO NEW LITTLE SONS,”Caleb Rhodes, guard, and his wife, Rose, had their baby boy, Nathan John, on December 18. On December 19 Cheryl (Modules) and Sam Stagliano became parents of Kevin Joseph.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-22, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,Jim Cunningham joined us this week. He is an I.C. process technician.

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-12, ABE LINCOLN IS OUR VALENTINE,”His example is inspiring. This is what Horace Greeley said about Abraham Lincoln: “”He was not a born king of men ••• but a child of the people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort and dogged perseverance. He slowly won his way to eminence and fame by doing the work that lay next to h~-doing it with all his growing might–doing it as well as he could, and learning by his failure, when failure was encountered, how to do it better. • • • He was open to all impressions and influences, and gladly profited by the teachings of events and circumstances, no matter how adverse or unwelcome. There was probably no year of his life when he was not a wiser, cooler and better man than he had been the year preceding.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-12, NEAR AND FAR AFIELD,”The December site narratives show lots of activity over the Holidays. Terry Williruns at Qnnibus Simulations in Los Angeles reports, “”the night of the company Christmas party (of course), the system went down .•.• the holiday weekend was fairly quiet.”” At Boeing, their CRAY X-MP “”was a bit of a Scrooge,”” says Gary Eddy, misbehaving on Christmas Eve. Robert Smith, on Serial 303 at Sun Company’s Canputer Center in Richardson, Texas: “”On 12/14 the customer had an open house to show off their new facility. Not surprisingly a child with a fascination for buttons spun down the 80MB disk and powered off the expander chassis causing an IOPO Halt 7. After realizing what had been done we replaced a bad meroory module and returned the system. II Poor Jack La Salle at Livermore: “”I run doing this in the middle of the night so everybody else on the site doesn’t get the Flu also.”” But there is more good news than bad, and custaner engineers and analysts are proud of the CRAY systems they maintain. A great many operated at 100 percent availability for the month. “”The customer is very pleased.”” “”We had a very snooth massive module swap.”” “”They like Cray enough to be installing a second system.”” “”The Cray2 system is running very well so far and the customer is very happy.”” ”December was another perfect month.”” “”No interrupt during the month, the entire system is running fine.”” Miscellaneous & Mysterious: References to “”rogue,”” “”killer,”” and ”worried” roodules. Helpful Tip from Richard Swirtz at the U of Illinois site: ‘Don’t let your probe tip short pins 12 & 13 together on M68 chips (it vaporizes the legs).”” Kurt Peterschmidt of Western Region says CE’s in training in Chippewa also study “”the subjects of ‘Antifreeze – Our Friend’ and ‘How to Remain Solvent While Your Assets are Frozen. ‘”” From Stuart Ayling in the United Kingdom: “”Our Abu Dhabi team has split up after a. very successful year. Mike Brown (softy) who set the scene, and Paul Elstone have gone to cooler hunting grounds. Extra hot Chilli Sambosa’ s just won’t sean the same any more. A g<XXi team – thanks a lot. Welcane to John Churchouse (shiny new bright pink softy). From Kash Yachirooto in Japan, December 3: “”We had the honor of having Prince Hironomiya’s visit at Nissan site.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-12, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Jeff Rochelle, IC process technician, joined us this week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-19, THE CHIPPEWA FAMILY YMCA CHILD EXPANSION PROJECT IS UNDERWAY,”In August 1985 the Chippewa Y made a request of Cray Research for a double match of other funds contributed for construction of additional child care facilities. The existing space was all used up, and there was a waiting list. The Y provides high quality care and is the most favored by Cray parents. The Chippewa Giving Committee offered $25,000 in 1985 and $25,000 in 1986, to be matched from Corporate funds–if the Y financial committee could secure a like aroount. Fund-raising of large sums is difficult in a small community like ours. T~ was flying and the need was growing more pressing, so last year we agreed to the two-for-one match. The Y obtained enough pledges (including many offers of donations in kind), and our local Giving Committee and the Cray Foundation each tendered a check for $75,000. Bids from contractors were received; contracts are being awarded on the lowest figures; and construction will begin soon. The 4700-square-foot addition will be on the northwest corner. The present capacity of 40 children will be doubled, infants through preschool. Construction to conform with the very strict regulations for child care is expensive. Other costs to the Y have increased considerably also; for example, insurance–which covers everyone on the premises–rose from approximately $6,000 to $20,000 per year, the main reason being the pool.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-19, URGENT,”If you have not yet received your 1986 1099 form from Norwest for interest earned on your Stock Purchase Investment Plan (SPIP), please call one of these numbers to report it: 612-372-8677 Brenda Haridy 612-372-9363 Jackie Bokemper or 612-372-8720 Kevin Weiss Be prepared to give your name, social security number, and complete address. You must also identify yourself as a member of Cray’s Stock Purchase Plan.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-26, BREAKING NEW GROUND,”It was a happy ceremony on Tuesday when ground was broken at the Chippewa Family YMCA for the addition to expand the child care service. Jim Wischnewski, director, and Dana Scmnerfeld, head of Day Care, expressed their appreciation on the realization of this goal. Even some little future users of the new pranises lent a hand (and a foot ) with the shovel.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-26, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”Jan Wikstrom, device engineer, and Kevin McLaughlin, circuit design engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-05, A RICE LAKE EMPLOYEE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION,”Mary Tiegs, 30-year-old assembler, suffered a stroke February 20 and is in critical condition in Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. Mary is almost eight months pregnant and has another EmaIl child. I spoke with Mary’s husband on Tuesday. He said she is now in stable condition; the monitor has been removed fram her brain. The next step is delivery of the baby by caesarean section. Then, the possibility of neurosurgery. It is a grim ordeal, and we should do something to help this unfortunate family. Collection boxes will be set out in the lunchrooms, or you may give your donation to your receptionist.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-05, A VERY IMPORTANT EXHIBIT,”Cray Research contributed $1100 toward Techno Expo ’86 held last April at the Old Mill Expo Center, with Astronaut Mark Brown, a lunar rover, moon rock, and many other space displays. This year we will be the chief exhibitor with Serial 14 CRAY-l on display. Techno Expo ’87 will be at the Civic Center Inn April 10-12. WEAQ – 1-94, presenter of this event for several years, phoned to see if we would again be a “”VIP Sponsor”” and wondered whether we might be willing to display a little model of a CRAY computer. A great-big real CRAY system seemed a much better idea to me. Dean Roush, Ron Davis, and Bill Cunningham enthusiastically endorsed the plan, and the project is going forward. I’ll bet even more people will come to see a supercomputer built by the World Leader than come to see the astronaut (yes, there will be an astronaut). Serial 14 CRAY-l is one of the veterans, having first gone to AFWL, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, in 1980; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in 1981; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, in 1983. Special panels were installed for NCAR, but these will be removed in favor of more conventional “”skins.”” Serial 14 is a l2-column system which should be very impressive under the spotlights. It will be in good company, too. A quarter-size scale model of the Space Shuttle will be another of the displays. Later this year Serial 14 will be donated to the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, as a permanent exhibit.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-05, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEE,”Thomas Brandt, failure analyst, joined Cray Research, Chippewa Falls, March 2.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-19, AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE,”The Cray Research Foundation was one of seven sponsors of a “”Conference of Partners to Plan Strategies for Science and Technology Education in Wisconsin”” held March 2-4 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine. Fifty-nine “”teachers, science educators, and sCientists, together with colleagues in business, industry and government,”” discussed in assembly how science and technology education can be enhanced. Then, breaking down into five groups, specific issues and needs were addressed and recommendations made. Representing Cray Research were Bill Linder-Scholer and Steve Hogseth. From our area also came Dr. Marvin Lansing, Eau Claire School Superintendent; Dr. Julie Stafford, Assistant Principal, Chippewa Falls High School; and James Hrabe, McDonell High Principal. Steve reported it an “”enriching enlightening, enjoyable”” experience. NEW EMPLOYEES IN CHIPPEWA FALLS Welcome to Dennis Doughty, maintenance, and Allen Buchholz, process engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-19, MISALIGNED EYES,”””If your child’s eyes are not straight, get help now,”” says theMayo CUnic. HeaLth LettVt.””As a youth, you probably heard the stern injunction, ‘Don’t cross your eyes. They’ll get stuck that way.’ While we do not recoomend the practice, we are happy to report there is no truth to this folk notion. But there are true visual hazards for children whose eyes are misaligned. . . . Without effective treatment before age five or six, children risk permanent reduction in visual acuity. ”No one knows why the eyes of sane children become misaligned. • •• It affects boys and girls equally often. • • • Children do not outgrow strabisnus (eyes that do not track in unison). Pranpt treatment and close adherence to a therapy program are essential to prevent permanent reduction in vision • • • When treatment is canpleted before age five or six, vision usually is ~roved, often to a normal level. • • • children also benefit from avoiding the stigma of being different in appearance from their peers. This can help foster the positive self-image so ~rtant during these ~ressionable years of personality developnent.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-26,” “”FROM “”””ON LINE”””””””,”Our Rice Lake newsletter reports Mary Tiegs has a healthy baby girl, named Kristi Ann, and Mary is doing well. What wonderful news! More next week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-26, ANNOU~CING THE BIRTH OF SONS,”On March 10 Stephen Christopher was born to Steve McMahon (Machine Shop) and his wife, Leigh. Joanne Schneider of Y-MP Module Repair and husband, Steve brought Steven Clemen~ into our world March 21. Also on March 21 Cindi Leiser (Tech Ops) and her husband, Dick, greeted their baby boy, LaMont Gordon.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-03-26, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,”David Morton, a mechanical engineer, started this week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-02, FRIENDS OF LAKE WISSOTA STATE PARK,”This new organization will have its kick-off meeting at the Chippewa Falls Public Library Monday, April 6, at 7 pm. From Gerald Schwoerer of Engineering: “”Friends’ Groups are non-profit organizations that work on a variety of projects that encourage cammunity involvement in our state parks. Several state parks already have active Friends’ Groups. Activities of Friends’ Groups are deteTInined by the interests of the members and may include such things as monitoring wildlife, sponsoring guest speakers and community social events, working on park ~rovements and helping with various park activities. Join us on Monday, April 6, to find out how your interests and talents can make the Friends of Lake Wissota State Park a special organization.”” Call Jerry at 723-3297 if you have questions.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-09, REMEMBERING,”Before the Cray Research Hallie Lab, there was the Control Data Hallie Lab. Seynx:>ur had it built in 1962. On July 13 (Friday the Thirteenth), in Minneapolis, my husband, son, and I waited vainly for the movers who were to transport our furnishings to Chippewa Falls. Eventually, on Saturday, they showed up. The day was well along before loading was completed, but we were promised faithfully to have delivery in Chippewa before nightfall. So we headed east in our grey two-door Ford station wagon. It was unusually cold for July on arriving in our new hane, but we were very happy sitting on the floor eating cold sandwiches prepared many hours earlier. Night fell, but no delivery van. Our only furniture was a lawn recliner we had carried in the car (a gift for a kind friend who provided HeTIm a bed until the family move). I drew that for sleeping, covered by a light jacket. I think HeTIm and Tom walked around and shivered most of the night. But on Sunday, finally, the movers came on the scene. The arrangement had been that I should call Seynx:>ur on getting into town. So on Sunday I did, telling him our stuff had just arrived (he was at the Lab, of course). He said welcaningly, “”Well, pile the furniture in the middle of the roan and come to work.”” ”Now?” I quavered. Then he really laughed, “”Monday will be fine.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-09, Y CHILD CARE EXPANSION,”Construction is going along well, with completion expected in August. As there is already a waiting list, if you would like to take advantage of the expanded facilities, it would be well to get your name in right away. (Some Cray Research employees have already done this.) I have some packets of information I’ll be glad to send if you give me a call, extension 1451.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-16, APRIL 8 WAS BABY BOY DAY,”On Wednesday, April 8, Tim and Tanmy (Y-MP module repair) Dachel greeted their son, Jacob Allen; and Dave Clounch, Riverside Development, and his wife, Diane, welcomed Jeremy.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-23, NEW EMPLOYEES IN CHIPPEWA FALLS,”Welcome to Robert Malnati, staff program manager; Thomas Torkelson, circuits engineer; and Joe Johnson, security guard.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-23, YOUNGLINGS,Baby girl Melissa Ann born to Ben (Tech Ops) and Pat Woodliff March 27. Baby boy Ryan Brent born to Brent and Cindy Yohnk (IC Packaging) April 2.

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-04-30, THE FIFTEEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY TAPE,”Everyone enjoyed the tape! It was Jean Egerman who got it all together, but many people in various Company locations were involved. Anne McNeill, Kim Salisbury, and Kate Neessen contributed greatly to the effort. There was footage gleaned from the archives, and portions of orientation and marketing tapes. Video Resources provided the taping team and the narrator. It’s a traumatic experience, being videotaped; sort of like going to the hospital and having an operation–or a baby. The doctors and nurses (Jean, Kate, and the Video men) were so kind, so encouraging, trying to hurt you as little as possible. Jack Williams gave the best performance. Too bad he is cutting short a promising video career by retiring this year.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-07, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”The following started last week: Woods, drafter; Laurel Kruschke, Vicki Ruhe, Jim La Chance, Karen Randall, Lawrence Briski, Joseph Amanda Nguyen, programmer-analyst; Larry IC equipment technician; and tech aides Allen-Pettis, Richard Peterlik, Sharon Kunya, Kim Huber, and Donald Hoebbel.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-14, MORE MYSTERY,”On Monday morning Jerry Olson reported both the pair of killdeer and the four eggs missing (four is standard). Could they have hatched and babies and eggshells blown away in Sunday night’s storm? It seems a predator would have left evidence of a dastardly deed. All that remains is a small area cleared of the bigger pebbles to make room for the eggs. (I did see a pair of adult killdeer near Engineering–the bereft parents?) Happier notes: Orioles, wrens, hummingbirds, rosebreasted grosbeaks, brown thrashers, kingbirds, and great crested flycatchers are back. Meadowlarks, bluebirds, and swallows returned a long time ago. “”It’s exactly that kind of behavior that gives your generation a bad name.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-21, ADDITIONS TO THE WORK PLACE,”Welcome to new employees: Donna Berdal, production technician, Hardware Publications, and summer interns Elizabeth Steitz, Todd Thoman, Jon Greeb, and Tom Graner.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-04, ADDITIONS TO THE FORCE,”Welcome these new employees: Stuart Hawkinson, applications engineer; Heidi Racanelli, drafter; Bruce Delmore, mechanical engineer; Tom Davis, electrical engineer; and Ray Thul, Manager, Operations Planning.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-04, HAIL AND FAREWELL,”Bill Borneman came to Cray Research from Chip-Tronic on August 16, 1976, the 78th employee hired. His first work place was our Graphics Center in the old Chippewa Shoe Building, where, under the supervision of Ken Seufzer, he was involved in artwork to improve and refine the CRAY-l modules. Bill is now a senior electronics technician. Flying is Bill’s long-time hobby and recreation. He has been a member of the Chippewa County Civil Air Patrol for over thirty years, a charter member. What this is all leading up to is that Bill is going to go off and leave us! Yes, he is retiring June 12, and looking forward to many pleasant trips with his wife, Betty, in a fancy new van–the first stop being a visit to their daughter near Atlanta.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-04, NEW AR.RIVALS,”Another John August Rollwagen, to be known as “”Jake,”” arrived May 21 from Bogota, Colombia. Jake is three months old and beautiful; John and Beverly are very happy. Congratulations! Congratulations, too, to George Hopkins of Engineering and his wife, Cindy, who became proud parents of Katrina on May 22; and to Larry (Riverside Development) and Jody Ritzinger to whom a son, Brian Joseph, was born May 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-11, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to Dale Zenner and Thomas Liddell, machine operators, and Matthew Miller, IC process technician; and to summer interns Jeff Heinzen, Frank Malin, Randall Kirk, Eric Markwardt, David Cottingham, Nancy Brenner, Kathy Stephan, Kimberly Schmidt, Craig Myrman, Kristin Wassink, Emily Tuzson, Tim Dieckman, William Taylor, Tony Saye, Michael Streveler, Scott Theirl, Dennis Calkins, Todd Harings, Lois Goettl, Greg Twerberg, Joel Gengler, Brent Harsh, Susan Frederick-Schector, Paul Lundquist, Elizabeth Penrod, and Mark Jordan.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-11, PRE-RETIREMENT PLANNING,”The first of six sessions to help prepare Cray Research employees for life after retirement was held the evening of June 2 in the Systems building. It was a sizable group (spouses of employees were also invited) that was addressed by Dale Schimmel on the extent of continuation of benefits after retirement and Kevin Koehn of Blunt, Ellis & Loewi, investment firm, on financial planning. Last Tuesday evening in Systems Gary Peterangelo of the Social Security Administration spoke on that subject. He corrected many misconceptions, probably the most important being that the S.S. agency is solvent and we don’t have to worry about their running out of money by the time our kids reach the age.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-06-18, NEW HIRES,”Please make these new employees feel welcome: Dennis Gullickson, IC process technician; Judy Christopher, security guard; Brad Hieb, electrical engineer, and John Libra, intern.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-02, ADDITIONS,”Welcome to new employees Ongky Tejayadi, CAD engineer; David Peterson, device engineer; and Brent Burnett, intern.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-02, ENTER GLENN DANIEL,”Congratulations to Mark Maloney of Riverside Development, whose wife, Lita, made him a gift of a son on June 25.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-09, HEALTH AND LEISURE,”These were the topics in the fifth of the series of evening pre-retirement planning meetings being held weekly in Chippewa facilities. Barb Powers, R.N., Human Resources, emphasized good nutrition and exercise to maintain health and enjoy life. Jan Washburn of UW-Eau Claire spoke on the importance of leisure–not leisure as in doing nothing, i.e., watching television, but leisure activity. Leisure provides the opportunity to do what one really wants to do–the part of one’s life reserved for oneself, apart from the obligations of job and family. Hobbies are wonderful leisure-time activities, and they can be pursued more extensively and give greater satisfaction after retirement. Sports are excellent; they have the bonuses of promoting physical well-being and social contacts. One should try new things; discover one’s hidden talents. Leisure activities deserve thought and planning. Quality leisure is a most rewarding part of life. (We Americans tend to suffer guilt feelings when we’re enjoying ourselves! It’s that built-in “”work ethic”” of our parents and grandparents. Many years ago an American woman of means–her family had worked hard to acquire a fortune–was visiting England. Her wealth gave her access to the so-called upper classes. One of her new acquaintances said she understood there was no leisure class in America. Our American lady responded, “”Oh yes–we call them bums.””)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-09, MOVING RIGHT ALONG,”If youlve been paying attention, you will have noticed how well the child care expansion addition at the Chippewa Family Y is progressing. The exterior looks great. The interior walls are up, and Wednesday and Friday of last week about twenty volunteers, men and women–Cray Research people among them–wielded paintbrushes. Floor and ceiling are soon to be installed.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-09, WHODUNIT?,”In Development a couple of weeks ago it was nothing to round a corner and come upon a dead body (the second time was not such a shock). What had been going on were CPR classes, and the bodies were plast ic models to pract ice on. There was one female figure and one of a child. It took only a little thought to figure out why the adult figure was a woman. As handling of the upper torso is necessary, feelings of embarrassment can be dealt with at once; everybody laughs and then forgets about it. Remember the repugnance at the idea of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when it was first promoted? Thank goodness, we got over that.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-09, WHOLESOME ADDITIVES,”Welcome our new employees: Barry Steel, CAD engineer; Jack Meyers, Jr., electronics technician; and Greg Eberlein, intern.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-16, A FURTHER STATUS REPORT,”A personal inspection of the site revealed what a good job the painters have done on the Chippewa Y addition. Brad Sweitzer, Jim Whitelaw, and Sheri Isham are among those who demonstrated their technique with brush and roller. The target date of August 1 for completion still looks good. Very few openings remain for child care. A maximum of 136 children, from six weeks old to school age “”latchkey”” youngsters, will be watched over lovingly at once.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-16, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Offer a greeting to Al Kramer, new logic design engineer at Riverside Project.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-23, PRECIOUS BUNDLES,”Born to Rod (Development) and Kim Bagley a daughter, Laura Danielle, on July 6; and to Theresa Meinen (Product Support) and husband, Dave, a son, Ryan David, July 18. REPORTS FROM THE FIELD FOR MAY Allen Enger writes: “”This System continues to run better and better.”” He is talking about Serial 29 CRAY-1/S, in service since 1981! From Charlie Breedlove on Serial 330 CRAY X-MP at U.S. Army SOC, Huntsville: IINo hardware interrupts for the month. Machine usage has increased even more, and the customer has been very pleased with hardware performance since install. 1I Mi ke Ki 1 mon on Seri a 1 417: liOn Ma rch 23 an XMP-22 was delivered to the Naval Ship R&D Center, also known as the David Taylor Model Basin where the Navy does modeling of ship hull designs. It was a smooth installation … thank the installation team from both Chippewa and the Eastern Region … “” From Guillermo Solano III at Sun Exploration, Richardson, Texas: II installing two DCU-5 Controllers and eight 00-49 Disk Drives … Special thanks goes to Lanny Butler and Rico Rios . . . The customer was very pleased with how the installation went and how the users were almost not affected at all. II Mixed bag: Chuck Quick (alias Charlie Fast) received several honorable mentions. “”Thanks to Reggie Holliday for helping us repair the pin in the middle of the night.”” “”Our software people are starting to turn gray around the edges.”” And, liThe other 8 had round switching knees.”” Tony Hatton in the UK: “” … we do have some ‘light’ relief. The customer has installed a blue fluorescent lamp behind the reservoir tubes, its like working in a discotheque now!”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-07-23, WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”Monica Hulback, printed circuits assembler, and Kris Myslinski, security guard.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-08-06, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to Darin Oster, systems technician, and Wei-Chung Hsu, software engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-08-13, A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Please welcome Dick Root, maintenance, who started work August 10.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-08-27, CONGRATULATIONS,”””To Michael Bye, Systems, and his wife, Dawn, on their new little mastermind, Justin Michael, born August 8.”” (No, Mike didn’t send in the announcement.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-08-27, UP AND RUNNING,”The expanded child care facilities at the Chippewa Family YMCA, a project close to our hearts, are operational. There were little bodies snugged down for naps, even smaller ones complaining of the indignity of diapering, and Y personnel beaming with satisfaction over the new quarters. Besides the kiddie rooms there is provision for janitor/laundry, mechanical, workroom, kitchen, and conferences. A few cabinets are yet to be installed, and the telephone and PA system–but it really looks good!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-03, THE UNITED WAY–Family Support Center,”People in our community have been touched by the problems of spousal and child abuse, family stress, and families in transition due to divorce and separation. Because of the stigma and shame connected with some of these troubles, many people won’t go to public agencies for help. The Family Support Center is their only hope. Without United Way funding there would be nowhere for victims and their families to turn that is private and free. But these problems cross all economic lines. Not just the poor and unemployed, but working professionals, need and use these services, too. Children in the Chippewa Schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade get “”protective behavior”” training tailored to their specific ages. This was designed by the Family Support Center. Encourage these efforts through your United Way contribution. It brings out the best in all of us. Look for your pledge card September 10 or 11.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-10, DEATH OF A FORMER EMPLOYEE,”Al Clifton, who died August 29 at the age of 64, was employed by Cray Research from March 19, 1979, to April 9, 1982, when he went on disability. Al worked for Hank Rosenbaum in Shipping and Receiving. We sympathize with his loved ones. R &V June. ’87”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-17, THE UNITED WAY–Lutheran Social Services,”””When I first met him, he felt he was experiencing a mental breakdown. This was creating a lot of anguish because of the let down his wife and children may experience as a result of the breakdown.”” This is the beginning statement in a case record of a neighbor of ours in the Chippewa Falls extension of Lutheran Social Services. LSS is one group that receives assistance from the UNITED WAY. The man mentioned above isn’t severely handicapped; nor is he chemically dependent. He is like anyone of us. All that happened was: For several roonths he was unemployed; after find a job, the pressures of the job and his unrealistic expectations of himself led him to a mental breaking point. Don’t fool yourself into thinking, “”not me.”” It happens every day. It is reassuring to know that someone is there to help. When you give the United Way, YOU are that someone. Oh yes, the ending statement: “”LSS feel their contact with this man was a major factor in his not losing his job and, indeed, not experiencing another mental breakdown.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-24, IMPORTANT REMINDER ON TAX WITHHOLDING,”If you have not already done so, you must file a 1987 W-4 or W-4A, Federal Withholding Certificate, by October 1. The Federal form will also be used for State withholding unless a separate Wisconsin Withholding Certificate WT-4 is filed. If you don’t file a 1987 W-4 by October 1, Cray Research must ignore any previously filed W-4 and change your exemption status to single with one exemption or married with two exemptions, depending on the marital status claimed on your last W-4 filed. All of the forms are available from Payroll or your Human Resources representative.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-24, THE UNITED WAY–Kinship,”This is National Kinship Week. Cray Research employees have served both the Eau Claire and Chippewa chapters. Brad Smith of Engineering is one of our volunteers. Caring individuals like you are needed to be special friends to Kinschildren. The commitment is to see your Kinschild once a week for at least one year. The time you give is a small sacrifice compared to the rewards you gain from your new friendship. The child with whom you are matched is determined by common interests, location, age, special needs, and hobbies. The most important factor is that you are willing to be a dependable and trustworthy friend to a child who has very likely suffered many losses in his or her short lifetime. If you have what it takes to be a Kinship volunteer, contact the office in your community today: Eau Claire, 835-0161; Chippewa Falls, 723-0881. Make a difference–be a friend!! Kinship is an agency of the UNITED WAY.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-10-08, THE UNITED WAY–YMCA,”The YMCA offers numerous facilities and activities for boys and girls: swimming, games, coaching, competitions in basketball and soccer, fitness training, and on, and on. It costs the YMCA $125 for each kid. An individual child’s membership is $80, and a family membership includes the children for virtually no cost. How can the YMCA subsidize the youngsters of our community? Through our donations to the UNITED WAY. The children are the future of our community, so in one way your pledge is an investment in the future. Support the YMCA through the UNITED WAY. It brings out the best in all of us.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-10-08, VARIOUS EXERCISES,”Manufacturing has a brand-new roof, besides the sizable new product addition. On approaching the front of the building a change in landscaping is apparent: The east side lawn has been converted for a patio, with screens for privacy. The new construction, which should be completed in about a month, has its main entrance on the west side and is separate from present Manufacturing. However, a skylight will cover the entire corridor between, joining the two structures. Larry Dahl worked with the architects on the building plans. The main floor of the new facility will be devoted to production, with a Class 10,000 clean room. Equipment designed by Steve Hughes and his manufacturing engineering group to be installed in future includes an automated module washer, several other types of automated apparatus, and 120 feet of roller conveyors to move parts, modules, and module assemblies–similar to the continuous belt conveyor system at Rice Lake which has worked so well. The second floor will house quality assurance and engineering personnel and include conference and training rooms. At present two big trailers parked out back are being used for Bev Tricomi’s soldering and Juli Ahneman’s electronics classes. Internally, an exercise program has been adopted throughout most.of Manufacturing (the men are lagging as usual). It’s a wonderful innovation, a 5-minute stretch break twice per shift to limber up cramped muscles and relieve tension. Barb Powers of Health & Safety and Peggy Schmidt’s daughter, Kim–who interned this summer–along with an aerobics instructor developed the routines. A number of tapes were prepared with the “”stretches”” set to a lively musical beat. Brenda Rose, Sandy West, Lynne Brill, Kathy • Kreut~eldt, and Sherry Roth of the Information Assistance group let me take part in their morning livening-up. Not only would this be beneficial to everyone, but it was fun! Since the inauguration of the stretch break, the number of employees off with job-related minor injuries and disabilities has dropped dramatically!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-10-15, BADGER BOYS STATE,”Every year Cray Research sponsors a boy’s attendance at this exercise-ingovernment–$l63, well spent. This year Rick Raihle of Chippewa High was our candidate. Another of the eight boys from Chippewa Falls who participated in the week-long instruction in political science, leadership, and law at Ripon College June 13-20 was Jeff Brost of McDonell, son of Jerry Brost. His sponsor was the Optimist Club. “”What ‘a day! The computers broke downan’we had to~VRJ[E!””. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-11-05, LITTLE MISSES,”Baby girls are the thing. From Printed Circuits comes news of daughters born to Sheridan and John Welch (Jennifer Deon) and to Howard and Truni Ressler (Bri ttani). Jim Linstedt of Riverside Project and his wife, Jane, are proud parents of Sarah Bernidine. Congratulations!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-11-05, WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES,Steve Lang and Joe Kopnick started in Systems last week.

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-11-12, Y CHILD CARE EXPANSION PROJECT,”I missed the grand opening ceremony, of $150,000 made the expansion being on vacation. As Cray Research’s contribution possible, and as I was the leader in securing the funding, I would have liked a report.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-11-25, PROUD DADDIES AND MOMMIES,”Two of the daddies are in Mechanical Assembly: Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mastin welcomed a daughter, Natalie, on October 26. On November 6 Jim Caliebe’s wife presented him with twins; they’re especially lucky to have a boy and girl, Trevor and Jena. Also on November 6 Sue Erickson of Wiring and her husband, Martin, had a big boy, Michael Kenneth. Receptionist Kris Jenson and husband, Brian, had a little girl, Katrina Ann, on November 16.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-12-03, CHALLENGES AND CHOICES FOR GIRLS,”This is a workshop that has been offered annually at UW-Eau Claire for four years now, the goal being to introduce young women to a variety of careers open to them. Cray Research customarily donates $3000 for this event. The workshop this year was on November 14. Girls in grades 6 through 9, their parents, and educators were invited to attend, and they came from allover the state. Forty-eight presentations were offered, on everything from a career as aquatic biologist to journeyman carpenter; from hydraulics and pneumatics to taxidermy and funeral directing. Our Sue Garcia and Juli Ahneman were two of the presenters; Julie Marlette was involved in planning. The most exciting speaker was Ann Bancroft, who related her experiences on an expedition to the North Pole–the only woman to have made such a trip. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-12-03, LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES  LTD.,”What an imaginative name! This is the Australian services bureau that ordered a Cray Research system in August–another new customer. Serial 302 has been shipped to Melbourne; the system will be leased. (Remember it’s not “”Mel-born”” but “”Melb’n.””) Our news release said: “”Thesystanwillbe used by petroleum, aerospace, automotive, biotechnology and other high technology companies, as well as by government, education and research organizations throughout Australia. Melbourne was chosen for the computer center site because it represents the heaviest concentration of companies and industries with a need for large-scale computing in Australia.”” Word has been received that Serial 232 CRAY X-MP system started acceptance testing November 13. Serial 232 is at one of the nationMlabs in the southwestern U.S.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-12-03, NEW DESIGNS,”Three originals claimed by Printed Circuits: Yvonne and Steve Woolever’S joint production is Nathan, born on November 13. Darlene and Ken Woolever collaborated on a baby girl, Kelsey, born on November 24. Bruce Dressel became grandpa of a baby boy November 25. Representing Y~MP Wiring is Danielle Marie, born to Tammy Sommer and her husband on November 29. “”Come on, everybody-dinner’s on the table/’ 

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-12-03, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Give a welcome to Debbie Schemenauer, who started November 30. Debbie is a computer operator. Mary Rodriguez is our new co-worker in Hardware Publications. Howdy, Mary!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-12-10, COME ON IN!,”Welcome to· new employee Dave Hebert, an associate program/analyst who started at Riverside Project December 1.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-07, THE GOOD NEWS,”A baby boy, Alexander Jerome, was born to John Greene of the Runkel Building and his wife, Thressa, December 26.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-14, ADDITIONS,”We welcome a number of new employees: Kathleen Siverling, Jody Burnosky, Kathy Webber, Jim Kenney, Caryn Peterson, Patty Brunges, and Cheryl Metzenbauer to Printed Circuits; Jack Cleasby and Paul Clark to the Machine Shop.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-14, BABY BOYS BORN,”To Kim (Development) and Larry Buss, Brenden Lawrence, on December 13; and to Geri Becker of Printed Circuits and her husband, Jeff, Christopher Allen, on December 27. Congratulations! eel got a waterproof, shockproof, rustproof, non-magnetic watch, but I lost it.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-21, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to Tim Black, June Black, Gena Greene, Valorie Ganong, Deborah Kanechey, Julie Mathews, Diane Satter, Charles Arnstad, and Dave Wallace of Printed Circuits; Dave Cahlander, Software Development, Mendota Heights; and Julie Mewhorter, Hardware Publications, Tech Ops.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-21, TAX BREAK,”What a thing to say about a sweet little b~by girl! But it was very timely of Anita Lea Blank to appear on the scene December 31. Her parents are Tammy, of Modules, and John. Congratulations! “”Actually, I’m just down here on business.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-21, YMCA CHILD CARE EXPANSION NOTE,”The expanded facility has its full complement of kids, averaging seventy at anyone time during the day. A total of 200 are taken care of at various times. What was a hallway has been converted for Latchkey girls and boys. Next Saturday a number of Cray Research people–artists and housepainters– will be redecorating this area. Julie Lea and Lynn Shilts of Development are planning a mural with clouds and hot-air balloons, large and small, to give the illusion of depth. The Partners-with-Youth program makes possible participation in Y activities to many youngsters whose parents cannot afford memberships. Another community service is reserving a few slots for children with teen parents. (Cray Research pays up to $60 per employee toward YMCA memberships or other organized recreational activity.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-28, LITTLE BLESSINGS,”Jay Young of Site Engineering and his wife, Sharon, became parents of Eric James on Jan. 15. On Jan. 21 Mary (Runkel Building) and Tom McIlquham (Riverside Project) welcomed Ashley Marie. Carrie Dee was born to Karolyn Peil (HREB) and husband, Russell, Jan. 24. Cheryl (Wiring) and Vern Helland had a son, Kody Lee, Jan. 25. Dave (Development) and Vicki (also HREB) Grensing had a baby girl just yesterday, Tracey Ann. Congratulations, all!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-01-28, NEW KID ON LOWATER ROAD,”Welcome new employee, Ron Vedder, who started January 25 in Systems.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-02-18,” “”UNITED WAY “”””THANK YOU”””” DAY”””,”Wednesday, February 3, was “”Thank You”” Day at Manufacturing, sponsored by the Charitable Contributions Committee and United Way. Tonya Rumery of Chippewa Falls, poster child for the United Way, handed out posters from 2 to 4 pm, thanking everyone for giving to the 1987-88 campaign. The “”little sweetheart”” was videotaped chatting with our Gary Gilchrist.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-02-18, NEW EMPLOYEES TO CHIPPEWA OPERATIONS,”A welcome to Karen Russo, Mary Rablin, Jim Larsen, LaVerne Hakes, and Betty Iverson of Printed Circuits and Tammy Johnson, security guard.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-02-25, NUPTIAL KNOT,Congratulations and best wishes to Anthony Drolson of Manufacturing and Jean Loew of Module Repair who were married on February 6.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-02, NEW EMPLOYEES,”A welcome to Teresa Lund, Systems, Philip Jenkins, Development, and Jon Mattison, Printed Circuits.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-03, NEWLY HIRED,”Give a welcome to new employees Paul Ebben and Scott Nyseth at Riverside Project and Tony Bauer, Stephanie Hauert, Sharlene Kurth, Gordy Kelley, Larry Rene, Rodney Pichler, and Jean Whiteside of Printed Circuits.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-10, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEES,Jay Flaherty and Bill Nazer are new co-workers in Manufacturing.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-17, FLUORIDE AND SEALANTS COULD LEAD TO A CAVITY-FREE GENERATION,”This is an exci ting prospect put forth in the Mayo CLi-Me.HeaUhLefteJt for March. “”… tooth decay remains a serious problan. By age 16, a typical child in the United States has about ten decayed, filled or extracted teeth. . . . Today, many studies indicate that the combined use of fluorides and dental sealants may completely prevent cavities in children. • •• Ingestion of fluoride is especially helpful during early childhood, while teeth are developing. The fluoride is incorporated into the enamel structure and offers continuing protection. We recommend fluoride toothpaste, mouth rinse (for school or home), and professionally applied topical treatments. “”Dental sealants enhance protection. . • . back teeth have depressions and grooves . . . almost impossible to reach with a toothbrush. . . . The best method to prevent decay of the back teeth is by use of dental sealants. Sealants provide a thin plastic coating. . This technology was introduced in the early 1970s, and ongoing refinements have made it increasingly useful. The American Dental Association considers sealants an important part of overall tooth protection for children, especially when used in conjunction with fluoridated water. “”Application is painless and easy •… teeth are etched with a mild acid to improve adhesion. • . . The dentist paints sealant onto each tooth in much the same way that polish is applied to a fingernail. • . • after five years, about 50 percent remain intact. Regular visits to the dentist will penmit necessary touch-Ups to extend the life of the sealant. “”This protection is most appropriate for children. Sealants should be applied when first molars develop (about age six), and again when penmanent molars erupt (age 11 or 12) …. sealants may have a useful psychological effect. As a painless means of protection, sealants offer a pleasant way to introduce your child to a dentist’s office–which should give parents a big smile.”” It’s still important to brush and floss–and see the dentist regularly.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-17, WEE LASSIE,”Dave Hanson of Printed Circuits and his wife, Jennifer, had a baby girl on March 7. Her name is Jenna. “”Maybe one of these days they can implant silicon chips in little kids so we won’t have to go to school.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-17, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEES,”Svend Nilsen and Rocco Martino to the Machine Shop; in Development, Doug Kervin, and a welcome back to Joe Meier.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-24, DEATH OF AN OLDTIMER,”Jim Bollom died on March 17. Many of us remember him from the Control Data Chippewa Lab. Jim was hired by Cray Research January 3, 1978, and retired August 20, 1980. He was a kind and helpful man. We offer sympathy to his family.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-24, RESULTS OF THE MATH MEET,”Students from 20 western Wisconsin high schools participated in the sixth annual regional Mathematics Meet Saturday, February 13, at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. The Eau Claire Memorial team Hypocycloids took first place in the large school division with 158 points. Eau Claire North’s Number One team placed second with 128 points. Top winners in the individual competitions received Cray Research scholarships to UWEC: Tyler Nasiedlak, Memorial, $400; Robin Wittig, Durand, $325; Tim Hawkins, Cashton, $325; Steve Fredrickson, Memorial, $125; and Bryan Schilling, Memorial, $125. Paul Haslow of North, son of our Randy Haslow, was also an individual winner.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-31, A TRAGIC LOSS,”It is a tragedy when one so young as Mike Lenz, 28 years, with everything to live for, loses his life to cancer. Less than a year ago vision problems were diagnosed as caused by a malignant tumor, necessitating removal of his right eye. Mike adjusted to this loss with incredible fortitude. He worked until just a couple of weeks ago. Bill Durch, his supervisor in software analysis, Systems, says everybody liked Mike: “”He worked so well with other people, they enjoyed having him around.”” “”A fine, caring person,”” say others. Mike had worked for Cray Research since June 1, 1982. The cancer, a type for which there is yet no cure, spread to the liver, which was fatal. Mike died on Sunday, March 27. He leaves his wife, Julie, and a baby daughter, Emily. The funeral was to have been yesterday at the Salem Baptist Church in Eau Claire. Gifts may be sent to the Michael Thomas Lenz Memorial Fund, 1028 Primrose Lane, Altoona, WI 54720.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-31, TOUR OF EXPLORATION,”On Tuesday, March 22, Heike/Design Associates, architects and engineers, flew a number of local people to Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Oshkosh to view three of their designed complexes. Heike/Design is one firm being considered to plan the “”Chippewa Center,”” the structure or structures to be built on the site of the old Woolen Mill and to house the “”Supercomputer Museum.”” The supercomputer was born right here in Chippewa Falls, with the production of Seymour’s Control Data 6600, an incunabulum. For almost 26 years this area has been unique because of the computer connection. A museum to preserve the memorabilia depicting the evolution of the supercomputer has long been a dream of Les Davis’s. Cray Research, Chippewa Operations, recently tendered the City a check for $75,000 for the initial project of demolishing the old buildings and preparing the site for construction. This should be underway soon. Dean Roush has been collecting material for exhibits for some time. A great addition is a CDC 7600 computer. I heard Dean swapped Los Alamos a DD49 for it; what a horsetrader! An item of rare historical significance is a Control Data 160A computer (which Seymour designed before the migration to Chippewa Falls). Dean acquired this computer from Karl U. Smith, retired from the UW-Madison. Professor Smith sends an interesting letter and an article on “”COC’s IGOA Canputer and the Origins of Interactive Human-Canputer Experimental Designs in Biology, Bianedicine and Psychology. This COC 160A, said to be the second unit of the manufactured line, was originally purchased and used by the Airforce, reacquired and reconditioned by COC, and sold to the Behavioral Cybernetics Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin in 1961.”” Professor Smi th’ s letter says: “”I still think the experiments I accomplished with the 160A are even now 10 to 20 years ahead of the field of experimental psychology. The experiments on use of the canputer system to invert, reverse and delay the retinal feedback of eye movements alone discredited and negated a century of superficial research . .. I personally consider the 160A the most outstanding scientific device ever built. It is better than having 25 super-superior graduate and research assistants helping out in the conduct of research.”” Those taking the sky tour were Mayor Willi, City Council chairperson Evelyn Maloney, City Attorney Jerry Sazama, Cray Research Foundation consultant Julie Stafford, Ramona Goettl, and Edna Bunn. All were impressed with the design and beauty of the Experimental Aircraft Center at Oshkosh, the Kohler Center, and Manitowoc’s Maritime Museum.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-31, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEES,”New on Lowater Road is Tom Johnson, who started in the Machine Shop last week. In Manufacturing the following are recent hirees: Judith Schwellenbach, Byron Schwartz, William Matthews, Rod Bowe, and Scott Sykora.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-07, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Jerry Bourgard started in mechanical installation, Systems, April 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-14, NEW BABY NEWS,”Daniel John was born to Dana (Inventory) and Dave (Date Processing) Downey April 7. Nicholas Allyn is the new son of Cheryl Dahl of Manufacturing and her husband, Roger. Nicole Marie was born April 11 to Brenda Boyea (Manufacturing) and husband Brian. Congratulations to all the parents.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-14, THEY’RE NEW,”Welcome these new employees in Manufacturing: Susan Kolterjohn, Patrick Menard, Charles Peloquin, Robert Jacobs, Sharon Faschingbauer, Sue Smola, Linda Zank, Tammy Engelbretson, Joellen Anderson, Darla Elwood, and Holly Emery. In Printed Circuits: Michele Bradley, Kathy Cardinal, Elaine Muszynski, Laurie Szajna, and Sandy Fetting. In Systems: Dennis Wagner.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-21, CHILDREN IN CRISIS,”On Tuesday, May 3, from 7 to 8 am the Luther Hospital Development Council offers another free Community Health Breakfast. Dr. Gail Tasch of the inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program will discuss issues that lead to the hospitalization of I children. “”Family discord, alcohol and drug abuse, school and peer pressures, and depression can all add to the stress of growing up in today’s fast-pace society.”” The breakfast will b~ in the 5th Floor Education Center in Luther. Call 839-3219 for a reservation.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-21, HELLO!,”A welcome to new employees Charlie Brooks, Machine Shop, and Michael Irish, Fereidoon Rayga, and Deborah Goossens, Manufacturing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, CHILD CARE AND OTHER YMCA ACTIVITIES,”Our special interest, the children’s project, is being fully utilized. About 300 youngsters are now being served in Child Care, Pre-School, and After-School programs (and 5,700 meals being served in a month!). There is still a waiting list. In March a questionnaire was sent to all participating parents for evaluation and comments. Tammy Rada is one of the Cray Research employees who have donated enough time to the YMCA to receive the $500 Company gift. This money was used to buy a wonderful sturdy deluxe cart for the children to be hauled around in. It seats six with seatbelts, and there is room for more in the middle. Indoors the kids face in, but outdoors they can face outwards for great sightseeing and leg movement. They love it. Standards in the Child Care are very high–so high, in fact, that not much more is required in order to be nationally accredited. The necessary improvements are in progress, and Cray Research has donated $200 toward the accreditation process. The Partner-With-Youth fund drives during April enable boys and girls whose parents cannot afford them to get YMCA memberships. The Chippewa Giving Committee voted a $1000 donation to the Eau Claire YMCA’s Partner-With-Youth program.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, COUPLE LITTLE GUYS,”Congratulations to Scott Diedrich of Manufacturing whose wife, Kamilla, made him the proud father of Zachary Thomas on April 16 and to Larry Norquist of Engineering whose wife, Beth, presented him with a son, Michael Patrick, on April 20. ~ ALTOONA, Wis.: Pedersen Elementary School teacher Alice Meyer used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save a pupil’s 2-week-old puppy. It nearly su1focated in a book bag. In an interview on Public Radio THE NEW YOIKEI Ms. Meyer said she thought the puppy was gone. But then it Her pupils were not terribly impressed; they just assumed teacher could fix it.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, NEW FACES IN PRINTED CIRCUITS,”Welcome these new employees: Rubin Mathews, John Gazda, Patricia Roeske, Karen Hudack, Lisa Short, Darcia Mark, Brad Seufzer, and Barbara Hicks.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-28, TIS THE SEASON TO BE MARRIED,Best wishes to Mary Shilts of Manufacturing whose wedding to Tom Sabaska is scheduled for May 7.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-05, A WELCOME TO NEW EMPLOYEES,”Dave Larsen, Manufacturing; Printed Circuits: Melinda Samens, Sharon Loney, Teresa Harel, Tracy Peterson, Gloria Walling, and Sheryl Sommer; Neng Vang and Gerald Goss, machine operators; Damian Hoffman and Dianne Faulkner, Coop.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-05, ANOTHER ONE!,”Jeff Williams of Manufacturing and his wife, Pat, had a baby girl, Krista Kay, on April 27. Grandpa is retiree Jack Williams. Congratulations to all.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-05, EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION,”Cray Research was a sponsor again this year of the Blue Ribbon Committee’s banquet honoring the top academic achievers of the graduating classes of the Eau Claire high schools. Fifty-seven seniors received recognition and awards, among them Rich Cornell’s son, Brian, and Randy Haslow’s Paul. Were there any other Cray Kids?CRAY CHIPSwould like to recognize them, too. The students, their parents, favorite teacher, and sponsors enjoyed the evening at the Civic Center April 26.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-12, A NEW WAVE,”Please welcome these new employees to Printed Circuits: Wendy McDonald, Ann Smitherman, Joyce Nazer, Tom Ford, Jackie Kullman, Nancy Reidel, Marjorie Gustafson, Wes Wieland, and Dave Fisher; and to Manufacturing: Christine Strom, Arnie Phillips, Tammy Braden, and Gregory Gwiazde.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-19, ADDITIONS TO THE FORCE,”New employees in Manufacturing: David Saye, Lisa Kriese, June Harshman, Virginia Rude, Mary Gervais, Sally Harter, and Tony Goulet. In Printed Circuits: Steve Johnson, Theresa Sykora, Linda Nelson, Rene Rykal, Mary Jo Behrens, Rose Johnson, Larry Steward, and Peggy Nelson. And Sco~t King, Systems; Chris Galstad, Integrated Circuits; and Dan ModI, securlty guard.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-19, MORE EXCELLENCE,”Chippewa’s Excellence in Education recognition dinner was held May 9 at the Fill Inn Station, honoring four McDonell and nineteen Chippewa High seniors- the top five percent scholastically of those graduating June 1. Our own Angela Meinen of ChiHi was in the group, as well as Jerry Brost’s son, Jeff, from McDonell. (Angie has worked for Dale Schimmel in Human Resources as a Coop student this past year.) A warm, inspiring, but realistic address was given by Kim Sippel, architect, formerly of Chippewa Falls. It was a very happy occasion.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-26,” “”””””YOU CAN’T BUILD COMPUTERS WITHOUT MATH”””””””,”That was my speech in response to receiving an award on behalf of Cray Research for our sponsorship of the national MATHCOUNTS competition in Washington, DC, two weeks ago. The Cray Foundation is a major funder (for three years at $75,000 each) of this program to encourage math proficiency in 7th and 8th graders; these are the years to build the solid math foundation so important to almost every youngster’s future. Bill Linder-Scholer, Executive Director of the Cray Research Foundation, announced the award: “”While Cray has contributed to student programs in math and science, this is our first major national corrmitment. We feel MATHOOUNTS is an important program for the future of Cray and other businesses that are so vital to this nation’s science and technology base.”” MATHCOUNTS has been in existence for only five years, but has grown rapidly in recognition of its value. The National Society of Professional Engineers and the CNA insurance companies are the founders. The Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers administers the state competition; Stan Fredrickson of Owen Ayres & Associates, Eau Claire, is state chairman. In the fall teachers of participating schools receive a MATHCOUNTS handbook with study guides and practice drills to work with the students to develop teamwork and math skills. Additional coaching and other materials are received throughout the year. In February the competitions begin to select local and then state teams. In 1986 Eau Claire South Junior High placed fourth of 34 schools competing in the state finals at Madison, and Steve Nelson’s son, Scott, earned fifth in the individual competition. There were four-student teams of “”mathletes”” from every state at the finals at the Sheraton Washington on May 13. The Wisconsin team comprised students from LaCrosse, Milwaukee, Mequon, and Port Washington. Bill and I attended the team competition and countdown round, with ten individual winners (one girl, from Nebraska) competing for the national championship. The national winner was Andrew Schultz, representing Illinois. Andrew and the winning team–from New York–went to the White House to meet the President. Bill,~s presence was also requested (they didn’t ask me), but he only got as far as the lawn, where after standing in the sun for 2! hours without any lunch he was able to see President and Mrs. Reagan enhelicopter for Camp David.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-26, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”In Printed Circuits: Nancy Sly, Paula Kuhn, Janice Stewart, Eric Dale, Steve Lund, Carol Dachel, Randy Rubenzer, Roxie Krenz, JoAnne Velie, and Chuck Perry; Rosiland Olson, secretary; Sarita Garg, computer operator; Denise Knaack and Ray Weiland, Jr., guards; and Wayne Drum, technician.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-02, A MAY BRIDE,Best wishes to Ann Knorn of component test who was married to Galen Teerink May 14.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-02, PLUSES,Greet our new employees: Cheri Jacobson in Manufacturing; Jim Dierickx and Randy Kottwitz in Hardware Publications; and Dan VonWeihe in Development.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-09, WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES,”Sheila Rud and Laura Waldon, guards, and Kip Landry and Robert Nicolai, Manufacturing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-16, THEY’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN,Congratulations to these employees in the Harry Runkel Building and their new brides: Greg Hubbard was married to Connie Fick on May 21. Robin Hartzell and Julie Westrich’s wedding was June 4. Best wishes also to Sherry Isham of Riverside Project who was marr~ed to Jerry Hahn on June 4.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-16, WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES,”In Printed Circuits, Steve Flaskrud, Karen Harlson, Barbara White, Neal White, Kristine Ager, Gregory Kuhlow, Mary Schemenauer, JoAnne Klingbeil, Bryon Ruback, Ken Kamm, Jackie Schultz, Laurie Felce, and Diane Nayes; at Riverside Project, Lois Vaillette; and Gary Rykal and Allan Sharp, buyers.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-23, A WEDDING IN JUNE,Best wishes to Donna Bowe of Component Test who was married on June 11 to David Sullivan.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-23, GREET NEW EMPLOYEES,”Welcome to Penny Johnson, Nancy Shaurette, Judy Smith, Julie Schreurs, and Shelly Huber.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-30, BE MY LIFE’S COMPANION,Best wishes to Lori Frederick of Module Repair who was married to James Hintz on June 18.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-30, CRAY Y-MP SEND-OFF,”Cray Research overran the Waters Edge last Thursday at the shipping party for the first CRAY Y-MP system. It was pleasantly cool to be outdoors and socialize, which everyone did. Janet Kowalewski and Laurel McCallum of Development; Roger Nosal, Product Support; Linda Dahl, Manufacturing; and Theresa Barr of Systems were the lucky winners of the CRAY Y-MP jackets. A message from “”The Royal Order of the Sleepless Knights”” pleads for a voice in the arrangements for part ies: “”We were there when the first microchips for the YMP were born. We were there when the printed circuits were etched. . . • we were here all through out the manufacture of the first Yl~ computer. . . . Where were the third shifters when it was time to have a shipping party? They had to go to work that night.”” Apologies, too, to anyone who missed the party because of not receiving notice in time. Occasionally a ship date may change at the last minute and so upset other arrangements. We’ll try to do better in future!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-06-30, NEW EMPLOYEES,”A warm welcome to Duane Hennekins, Diane Kleinschmidt, and Roger Liddell.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-07,” “”””””THE RESURGENCE OF A SERIOUS DISEASE”””””””,”””Recent outbreaks of rheumatic fever among children in several U.S. cities is causing renewed concern among doctors and public health officials alike,”” says the JulyMAYO CLINIC HEALTH LETTER.”” ..• the illness follows an acute throat infection with the streptococcus bacteria. . .. It is nnportant to note, however, that the majority of strep throats do not lead to rheumatic fever. “”Pay close attention whenever your child develops a sore throat–especially if it persists for more than 24 hours and is accompanied by a fever. Although a sore throat is a relatively common malady, don’t overlook its serious potential. . . . Prompt and proper treatment of a strep throat prevents the development of rheumatic fever. “” … a sore throat is not always caused by a strep infection. Your doctor cannot make the diagnosis merely by looking at the throat. He or she will collect a specimen by rubbing a cotton swab against the back of the throat .•• a ‘throat culture.’ If microscopic strep bacteria are present, your doctor can make a positive diagnosis and prescribe an appropriate antibiotic: For most people, this will be penicillin.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-07, LET’S PIPE ‘EM ABOARD,”Welcome to new employees in Manufacturing as of J-Ine 27: Gary Meyer, Cindy Dorsey, and Julianna Brindle.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-14, PLEASE WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”Dan Robinson, drafter; James Stoffel, computer operator; Lynn Woodley and Colleen Sweeney, module assemblers; Kevin DeRosier, Mark Wagner, and Tim Holler, Systems technicians; Doug Hildebrandt and Mark Norem, Systems engineers; and in Printed Circuits, Denis Blonk, Anna Mae Bauer, Anita Goettl, Richard Jacobson, Karen Gunnes, and Marie Elsner.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-21, CRAY RESEARCH EMPLOYEES ARE FATHERS OF INVENTION,”Two of the winners in the INVENT AMERICA! contest are the daughters of Cray Research employees. Last week on local television Kahya Fox showed her invention to make a standard swing safe for a handicapped child–a waistband with back support and a clip on either side to fasten to the chain. Kahya is the daughter of Greg Fox of Development; she is nine years old and going into fourth grade at Southview School. Alexa Halford, who was only a first grader last year at Stillson, is also a State winner. Alexa invented a “”rain protector,”” a plastic cover for protection while riding a bicycle. Bob Halford of Engineering is Alexa’s proud father. Kahya and Alexa each win a $200 Savings Bond. Their teachers and schools will also receive awards this fall.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-28, ABOUT THE WAFER STEPPER,”Another powerful new machine is residing in the nether regions of Development. It is the ASM PAS 2500/10 stepper, the most accurate optical lithography system in existence. Del Eberlein, Tom Taylor, and Joe Caskinette journeyed to Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where the Philips and ASM International systems originate, seeking the ultimate for our I.C. fabrication. Del says it was hand selected, the optics and electronics married to give us a super machine. “”That’s what we were there for. It beats specifications two to ten times in resolution, magnification, overlay accuracy, and lack of distortion.”” The G-Line was purchased at a cost of a little over $1 million, but it performs to I-Line ($1.4 million) specs. The trio source-inspected the system which was crated the day they left Holland; it arrived here almost simultaneously with their return. The PAS 2500 was up and running in a week to ten days, and there have been no problems–performs excellently. It is an engineering dream, incorporating lasers, electronics, mechanics, and optics. “”The most intelligent robot I’ve ever seen,”” says Tom Taylor. It was my privilege to receive a personal demonstration by Tom, who is well experienced with steppers. He refers to this as the fourth generation. I donned the cap, coat, gloves, and booties required before entering the clean room. (A plus for womankind: I didn’t have to wear the “”over-pants”” the men did, ’cause I already had nylons on.) The component this marvelous machine produces is the silicon wafer that holds the integrated circuits that are the foundation of the CRAY Y-MP supercomputer. A mask is required for each layer of the wafer. The PAS 2500 “”steps”” down the mask fed into it to 1/5 its size. There are one hundred tightly-controlled steps. Each option will have its own reticle, which prevents wasting silicon. The extreme accuracy of the PAS 2500 is due to the incorporated metrology. The system compensates for–actually corrects–human errors. UNITE: A GREAT OPPORTUNITY Registration for Fall Quarter UNITE courses, to begin September 21, will be held August 5 through September 7:    (Friday), 11 am-l pmAugust 5    Development Library   

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-28, RECENT ACQUISITIONS,”Welcome these new employees: At Printed Circuits, Kevin Johnson; CRAY-3 project, Loris Seibl, Paula Johnson, Sandra Kaul, Mary Seidling, Cheryl Fehr, Sally Miller, and Julie Zillmer; and Kris Sperstad, materials analyst.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-08-04, NEW EMPLOYEES AT PC,”Making new footprints at Printed Circuits are Angela Brummond, Scott Yohnk, Gretchen Carter, Roxanne Sahm, Todd Loew, and Trudy Bennett. Welcome!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-08-11, NEWLY MARRIED,”Congratulations and best wishes to Betty Drinkwine and Gary Norrish, both of Manufacturing, on their wedding July 22.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-08-11, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES IN MANUFACTURING,”Shawn Myers, Keith Pearson, Jane Barbee, Lynne Jahnke, Judy Zwiefelhofer, Kristi Kyes, Judy Heitzke, and Theresa Gregorson.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-08, BRIDES AND GROOMS,Congratulations are in order for Keith Zenner of the Machine Shop who was married to Rita Ahlstrom on August 27; and on that same date Pam Potaczek of Manufacturing was married to Jim Jensen. Best wishes!

 social! 1988-09-08      FirstSecondThirdFourthFifthSixthSeventhEighthNinthTenthEleventhTwelfth    Todd PetersonBrad SeufzerMarjorie KellyTom HotleBob WoodcockSteve ShaferJeff RitzingerDoug ManiakMike McCluskeyLarry MuellerBuck NiblettTerry McDougall    Ron HermesRandy PassintDave BishopJim KunzBob StephensDick BrownellJeff LenzSteve HerbensonEric FrommTom HinrichJim HronDee Phernetton    Dennis BiezeBillie WebbFred KawellSteve DeanTom Davis (Dev)Jack WilliamsBill HertzfeldtLoren MastinJohn LienSandi HermesRoger LutzMark Birrittella    Todd Peterson of Rice Lake won the low gross trophy with a 69. One hundred forty-nine golfers participated in the competition on August 20. The Mill Run management said, “”The Cray golfers took excellent care of the greens and fairways. The course was left very clean. Cray is always welcome!”” A note of thanks and appreciation was received from Julie Lenz, Mike’s young widow, in a part of which she says, “”The plaque is beautiful. It will be a real treasure to my daughter, Emily, and I.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-08, THEY’RE NEW,”Give a welcome to these new employees at Printed Circuits: John Zimmerman, Chris Jarvis, Lisa Tiegs, Mary Whiteside, and Jeff Theisen.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-15, NEW HIRES,Please welcome these new employees to the Printed Circuits operation: Terrance Sullivan and Donald Lindner.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-29, MANUFACTURING PUTS ON,”Please welcome these new employees: Darrin Engstrom, Julie Horstman, Thomas Weingart, Dan Burns, Joni Wright, Janet Boos, Keith Deacon, and Michael Pearson. Printed Circuits has added William Hass, David Rossow, Dorothy Arneson, James Bruchner, and Diane Ockerlander.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-09-29, NEWLY-MARRIEDS,”Two of our women in Cables thought September 17 was the very best date for a wedding: Chris Popelka was married to Jerry Jakubowicz, and Mary Spielman wed David Deiss. Julie Chalmers (MH) and Larry Larson are honeymooning in Acapulco after their marriage on September 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-06, A FALL BRIDE,”Best wishes to Lisa Soulliere, Printed Circuits, who was married to Todd Woods Septanber 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-06, ACQUISITIONS,”Newly hired at Printed Circuits are Glen Mikesell, Sally Jo Iverson, Ann Spielman, Jacqueline Ciolkosz, and Dennis Brandstatter. In Manufacturing new employees are Candice Cicoria, David Loew, Kristine Hawk, Karen Grubba, Leslie Whitcome, Russell Ziebell, Eric Dovenbarger, Judy Rumphol, Laura Rowe, and Lori Trotter. At Tech Ops these have been added: Rhonda Kunsman, Jon Wood, Richard Bergman, and another Richard Dimock. Plus Gerald Day, Systems; Raymond Blok, process development; and Dan Sheehan, PC fabrication.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-06, BIRTHS OF SONS,”Congratulations to Shari (Modules) and Dean Eslinger, to whan Cody Dean was born October 2; and to Charlie Brooks, Machine Shop, father of Robert Henry, as of SeptEmber 20. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-13, A GREAT BIG HELLO!,To new employees at Tech Ops: Lorna Harris and Carl Miller; and at Printed Circuits: Raymond Blok and Daniel Sheehan.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-27, HELLO LITTLE LADDIE,”Congratulations to Jane (Engineering) and Steve Thompson to whom a son, Christopher Steven, was born October 13.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-27, HELLO YOUNG LOVERS,Best wishes to Lois Vaillette of Engineering who was married to David Grassl on October 15.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-10-27, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”Manufacturing: Jason Pecka, Daryl Holbus, Jill Malison, Juanita Poettker, Jodi Johnson, Doug Olson, Heidi Johnson, Sandy Miller, Janet Bates, Vicki Dachel, Michelle Peloquin, Connie Spickler, Tony Nicolai, Shannon Sanford, Brenda Zwiefelhofer, Pamela Frederick, and Jerome Nonquist; Printed Circuits: Sherry Canfield, Rebecca Kralewski, June Schindler, and Sharon Sni th; Systems: Dan Graf and Scott Schroeder; Product SuppOrt: John Woodruff.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-03, ANOTHER FAMILY WEDDING,”Married on October 1 were Jackie Nowak of Y-MP Modules and Peter Vinmans, Wiring. Congratulations and best wishes!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-03, NEW EMPLOYEES IN SYSTEMS,”Please welcome Anthony Kaser, Eric Schmidt, Jeffery Bro, Christopher Yenni, Charles Zielinski, Paul Foster, Eric Fischer, and Richard Banker.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-10, ADDITIONS TO THE WORK FORCE,”Please welcome Mike Gobler and Carol Westrich, new employees in Printed Circuits; in Manufacturing: Lillian Zimmer, Valerie Best, Linda Schaefer, Janice Hable, Chris Kolstad, and Kenneth Krouse; and Eric Fischer, Mark Lapage, Patricia Lodahl, Brad Hub, David Knutson, Tim Stremcha, Javed Hussain, and Brian Tilton.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-10, OH! DEER!,”Friday morning in Riverside several employees had the treat of seeing two buck deer with large racks (the smaller was an eight-pointer) and a doe near the River. The first to be sighted was a buck, in no big hurry but heading toward the Rill to drink. Then the doe appeared. Then the buck with the larger rack, who took off in hot pursuit of the other male–temporarily, at least, ignoring the doe. The Beaver Creek Reserve calendar says rutting season began last Sunday. (Our herd numbers at least five.) Then there’s the beaver, who is busy as a gnawing off saplings and carrying them to — where? More study required. On Monday a gorge ous pileated woodpecker appeared. (On October 28, a redbellied.) It helps one get through the winter. IN A DEATH NOTICE in the Elmira, N.Y.,Star-Gaaette:””The deceased had requested that there be no flowers (due to her allergies).”” “”You should have told him he/s about ready for discharge. Not ‘We/ll be losing you soon.’ “” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-17, NEW EMPLOYEE,A welcome to Kerry Kloss in Printed Circuits who was hired November 7.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-17, NOVEMBER WEDDIN GS,”Congratulations to Greg Faanes of Development and his bride, Jackie, on their marriage November 5. Best wishes also to Lori Nayes of the Runkel Building and Scott Christensen, Printed Circuits, who were married on November 12.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-12-08, HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN,”The December Ma.yo CUn-Lc.. Hea1.;th Le.tieJL says medication and behavior therapy can help control their condition. Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects, to varying degrees, approximately 5 million children. It is roost camon aIOOng boys. In the majority of cases, ADHD is not associated with brain damage or impaired intelligence. Many normal children are feist~inattentive and bursting with boundless energy at same points in their lives. What sets ADHD children apart is the intensity and persistence of their behavior. A psychologist, social worker and school guidance counselor can provide valuable support and treatment. InvolvEment of a knowledgeable physician also is essential. There is no single “”cure”” for this disorder. Stimulants are the mainstay of medical treatment. About two-thirds of children with ADHD respond favorably with no danger of addiction fvam carefully prescribed doses. Their use need not be lifelong, since about half of ADHD patients outgrow their problems. ADHD is a serious but manageable condition. A GOOD WAY TO START THE DAY WISCONSIN PlJBlJC RADIO 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-12-22, NEW EMPLOYEES,New in Manufacturing are Gerald Johnson and Carroll Slaughter. Welcome!

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-05, NEW IN FOURTH QUARTER,”New employees in Technical Operations: Lorna Harris, Carlton Miller, Lois Bowe, and Charles Fradella. Welcome!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-12, NEW YEAR HIRES,”Welcome these new employees who joined Cray Research during the first week of 1989: Engineering–Kelli Strabley, Steven Martin, Daniel Block, Shirley Schmitt, and Anthony Zabinski. Manufacturing–Gregory Dachel, Jeanne Metcalf, and Merey Zwieg. Printed Circuits–Brenda Anderson, Rick Hunt, Phillip Bratcher, Mark Hedlund, Rhonda Hyke, Malissa Johnson, and Michael Lindberg. Machining Center–Richard Huset, Michelle Larson, Doug Secraw, William Sykora, and Martin Zais.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-19, HAPPY NEW YEAR!,”Kelsey Mae, the daughter of Gary (Development) and Connie Siverling, was the first baby born in 1989· in Eau Claire and Chippewa County.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-19, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Please greet the following: Philip Kevitt, Mark Riste, James Londo, and John Rogers in Systems; Dawn Bodenburg, Maxine Caskinette, and Howard Larson, Engineering; John Zwiefelhofer, Gregory Bluemn, and Daniel Strange, Manufacturing; Diane Gettler, Lisa Knawf, and Julie Yakesh, Printed Circuits; and Gary Novak, Machining Center.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-26, LAST WORD ON THE NOVEMBER NARRATIVES,”Reggie Holliday was busy with Serial 307 at Northrop: “”During our first P.M. of this month we found a bad power supply in our X-MP which provided us with some fun because we really did get to do some tinkering …. sometimes a straightforward problem isn’t. . .. [On a DD39 disk] we tried replacing about every card in it and adjusting it until our tweekers were about worn down to nubs … we changed our D.E. in that drive … and haven’t had a burp from it since.”” Mike Cable at NASA Ames: “”IJasonl [Serial 2013 CRAY-2] was pretty good to us this month with a clean record and a clear conscience.”” From NASA Lewis George Kozak says, “”Bob [Grady] was in the Unicos for FE’s I and II, from the 14th to the 23rd. Bob says it was the best class he has ever taken with Cray. It was a perfect balance of instructor knowledge, self-study, class time, and lab. Jim Martin taught it.”” [There was high praise also for the EA class.] From Ohio Supercomputer Center John Marinchek notes, “”My son was born on October 28 .. “” [Congratulations, John!]”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-16, MANY BLESSED EVENTS,”Congratulations to the parents of all these newborns: Bryan Taylor, born to Mr. and Mrs. Norb Kirk (Finance) on January 15. On January 23 Rick (Development) and Susan Pribnow welcomed Michael Richard and Kevin (Quality Assurance) and Sharon (Production Control) Malnory had a baby girl, Brooke Mae. On January 26 Bill and LeAnn Linder-Scholer greeted Laura Lee and Jim (Site Engineering) and Sarah Tennessen had a son, Colin Philip. In the Eastern Region Mathew Robert was born to Sandi and Bob Renzi, both Cray Research employees, on January 28. On January 29 Debbie Dienger-Loew, Wir- ing, and her husband, Gary, had a son, Marcus Allen. Shawn Edward was born to Kim (Wiring) and Edward Dachel on January 30. On February 6 Bruce (Development) and Sue Strangfeld had a baby boy, Paul James (PJ). Soren (Wiring) and Bobbie Rasmussen had a daughter, Rebecca Alma, on February 9. OUR FRIEND IS GONE Pat Durch passed away Tuesday night. COME ONE, COME ALL Cray Toastmasters’ meeting February 23, La Hacienda banquet room, 6:45-7:45 am.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-16, PRE-RETIREMENT PLANNING,”Seven weekly seminars on pre-retirement planning are being offered to Cray Research employees beginning March 7, on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8 o’clock in Product Support. The sessions will cover various topics associated with planning for retirement including financial, legal/estate planning, Social Security, health and leisure planning, and Cray benefits. Speakers will lead discussion of each subject and allow ample opportunity for attendees to ask questions. The program is targeted for employees within fifteen years of retirement, but all are welcome to attend. Employees are encouraged to bring their spouses, or a guest. If you are interested in attending the seminars, please contact Becky Bieno in Manufacturing, extension 2409, for an enrollment form.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-23, ROBERT PATRICK DURCH,”Pat Durch was born on St. Patrick’s Day and died on St. Valentine’s Day. That must mean he was doubly blessed. He was always a part of our group. He built the Control Data Chippewa Lab in Hallie in 1962. He greeted many on their arrival in Chippewa Falls from Minneapolis. The first Christmas we attended a party in his home on Olive Street. He called Seymour his “”pal.”” Pat was one of the original investors, a founder of Cray Research. The Certificate of Incorporation dated April 4, 1972, lists the first Board of Directors: Seymour Cray, Robert P. Durch, George Hanson, Frank Mullaney, and Noel Stone. Pat was Tschopp-Durch-Camastral, Chip-Tronic, and Timber Terrace. He was a great guy who affected many lives in a positive way. We loved him; we will miss him. The family prefers memorials go to the McDonell High School Foundation. Cray Research will match these donations, which may be sent to Loni Meinen, PS.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-02-23, WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES,”Celeste Fouts, Alison Gorton, Carrie Meyer, Steve Ohr, and Ronda Rosenthal at Printed Circuits; Louis Walta, Machining Center; Robert Koplin, technician; and Ann Dyer, tech aide.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-09, WELCOME  NEW EMPLOYEES,”Mike Pessmer, Brian Seibel, and Brock Shimon, to the Machining Center.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-23, BOWLING BANQUET,”The Friday Morning Cray Mixed Couple Bowling League Saturday, April 1, at 6 o’clock at the Four Corners. All subs are invited. If you have any questions, call Lois Stolp, first shift, Cables, extension 2112. a banquet on NOW APPEARING — Jacquelyn Marie, Olson March 14. Development. born to Mr. and Mrs. Doug The proud father works in APRIL SPECIAL OFFER “”Slenderizers,”” 21 E. Columbia, offers Cray Research employees 25 Tones $99.95 10 Tans 29.95 First visit FREE. Call 723-8611 for an appointment. The good boss takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit “”How can I ever face the gang after that terrific going-away party last night?1I 1960 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-03-30, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”Kathy Bauer, Printed Circuits; Mike Kelley and Tim Paulson, Machining Center; Tammy Britt, Security; and Ronald Reid and Victor Palomar, Systems.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-06, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”Deanna Dowdle, Printed Circuits; Harry Vollen and Ronald Rablin, Manufacturing; and Thomas Chojnacki, Development.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-13, EMPLOYEE MERITS AWARD,”Donna Berdal, Hardware Publications, won a First Place from the Xerox Electronic Publishing Awards for her graphic drawing of drive switches and indicators on a disk drive. Besides a certificate, she will receive a 3 dimensional glass ‘X’ (worth $90), a book on desktop publishing graphics, and the Xerox Publishing Standards Manual. Besides that, she has a new baby girl, Cara June, born to her and her husband, Rod, on April 1. Congratulations, Donna, on these two achievements. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-20, COUNTER POINT,”The donation by the Company Chippewa Giving Committee of $2000 for the Chippewa and McDonell all-night graduation parties was questioned by some employees as a lot of money for the schools to spend on non-education. It should be explained the schools.did not receive the money, and do not put on the parties. Committees of parents are responsible for the festivities, and local businesses contribute prizes and funds for refreshments, games, music, T-shirts, etc. Perhaps it isn’t necessary to spend thousands of dollars for the kids to have a good time. Perhaps hundreds of dollars would be enough.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-20, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”In Tech Ops: David Peterschmidt, Patrick Sullivan, and David Meinen. In Manufacturing: Gordon Anderson.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, NEW EMPLOYEE,”Welcome Rick Kathrine, Security Guard, who started work this week.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, NEW EMPLOYEE,”A welcome addition to the Machining Center is Larry Iehl, as of April 24.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-11, WE ALSO WORK FOR EDUCATION,”The “”Number One News”” of the Chippewa Valley Technical College for March lists six students who were recipients of scholarships this year from our donations to the CVTC Foundation. Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire schools each hold a recognition dinner in the spring for honor students, their parents, most esteemed teacher, and sponsors. Cray Research has been a sponsor-donor at each event. The Excellence in Education banquets were held on April 27 at the Eau Claire Civic Center and May 8 at the Fill Inn Station. Rich Cornell was our representative in Eau Claire and Juli Ahneman in Chippewa. Dennis Brown was also in attendance at the Chippewa Falls dinner, representing the Optimists.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-18, 1989 ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING,”Monday’s dramatic announcements brought the largest crowd ever–long before time to begin–to the shareholders meeting in Minneapolis on Tuesday, to hear for themselves of the two-pronged powerful thrust of our future direction. John Rollwagen opened the meeting, commenting on this “”special day.”” Seated on the dais were John Carlson, Seymour Cray, Marcelo Gumucio, and Les Davis. John gave a tribute to Tom Longo, who is retiring from the Board of Directors after fifteen years of service. Marcelo is the new Board member. John noted two of the reasons for the “”significant decision”” were the great success of the Y-MP and the exhilarating progress on the C-90–perhaps even ahead of expectations. Two thriving industries, Cray Research, Inc., and Cray Computer Corporation, can only be of benefit to all–the supercomputer companies of the United States. John Carlson reported on the 1988 financial performance. Cray Research will provide Cray Computer sufficient funding to complete the CRAY-3 project. Initially Seymour will remain on the Cray Research Board and John R. will be a member of the Cray Computer Board. Marcelo remarked on our 76 percent of all installed systems worldwide; Control Data has 10 percent. The over-publicized Japanese systems–NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu–total only 14 percent. Sixty-eight percent of Cray Research computers are in North America. The Government still uses 59 percent; commercial customers, 26; and universities, 15 percent. Marcelo mentioned another university contract just received (couldn’t name the name yet), in addition to MIT’s for a CRAY-2 announced last month. Acceptances in Belgium and Finland brought us into twenty countries around the world. The excellent progress in Bob Ewald’s software division was endorsed enthusiastically by Marcelo. Les produced a spontaneous burst of applause when he introduced Seymour’s father, Seymour Cray Sr. (Seymour’s sister, daughters, and son were also in the audience.) Les reported on the ramped-up production of CRAY Y-MP systems and successes of the C-90 project, and that we have just broken ground for another printed circuits facility. Seymour spoke on two subjects, the CRAY-3 and “”splitting up the Company.”” (He reiterated one of the reasons for locating away from our area: “”It would be a disservice to Chippewa Falls to increase the population still more significantly.””) He explained the delay in the CRAY-3 project. Most of the Colorado Springs personnel were not computer-experienced, “”but looking promising.”” The absolute necessity of robotology required an agreement for their custom design and fabrication from the Hughes Aircraft Company. Seymour “”was very impressed that they delivered on schedule by the end of the year.”” He said he “”was pleased with the robots and with the people, and very pleased with Neil Davenport.”” On splitting up the Company Seymour referred humorously to his “”circular career path,”” and his need to work in a smaller group; he has “”trouble working with thousands of employees”” (impossible to know them personally). “”I kind of like starting over.”” John R. ended the meeting with comments on our great strengths and ability to handle the challenges ahead. A question-and-answer period followed. I think Seymour made the best closing remark years ago at Control Data: “”Proceed with confidence.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-25, NATIONAL MATHCOUNTS COMPETITION,”This was the second year of our three-year commitment of major support of this excellent program to encourage developing math skills in 7th and 8th graders. Bill Linder-Scholer as Executive Director of the Cray Research Foundation and Edna Bunn represented the Company at the four-person team and individual competitions to determine the national champions. It was a very well organized program for the “”mathletes,”” their coaches, and parents at the Sheraton Washington on May 12. There were teams from every state. The Wisconsin team consisted of students from Mosinee, Fox Point, Racine, and Greendale; the coach from Mequon. The Minnesota team were from Hibbing, Woodbury, Rochester, and Stillwater, and coach from Gilbert. The Minnesota team scored fifteenth, and Wisconsin, nineteenth–not bad over the whole nation. The winning team was from North Carolina. The three individual winners were Albert Kurz of Pennsylvania, Lenny Ng of North Carolina, and Robert Kleinberg of New York, who won second place last year as a 7th grader. (Lenny’s father tried unsuccessfully to teach me to pronounce “”Ng.””) At the closing banquet Bill was delegated to make the awards, and Daniel Burrus of Wausau, “”futurist,”” entertained and inspired the kids with his speech. The first place winner received a computer. The three top individual winners were awarded sizable scholarships from General Motors. Grumman Corporation is providJng the top three plus the team winners a week’s stay at Space Camp. Every contestant received a calculator from Texas Instruments. Two years ago at the National MATHCOUNTS Competition, then Vice President George Bush asked the final question in the countdown round (with security people everywhere) and awarded the top three medals. This year these three and the winning team were to visit President Bush in the White House on Monday following the program. AT THE STOCKHOLVERS MEETING Seymou!t With JohnC~on AndJte.w Sc.oti andPeteVilUngham GET YOUR FREE BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING HERE This is the schedule commencing next week:    Tuesday, May30    Wednesday, May31    Thursday, June 1    June 5Monday,   

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-01, MAY BRIDES,”But we have the grooms! Dale Bohl of Manufacturing took to wife Sue Eystad, on May 20. On May 27 Dick Dimock of Engineering was married to Marie Johnson. Very best wishes for your happiness, Dick and Marie, Dale and Sue.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, BRIDES AND GROOMS,”Congratulations and best wishes to these couples: Jane Woodcock, Systems, and Kevin Knecht, Engineering, who were married April 1; Julie VanDuyse, Systems, and Barry Kahl, Development, May 6; Jan Emmert, also of Systems, and Bob Fehr, Engineering, May 13; and Roxanne Boos, Manufacturing, and Tom Hinrichs, Runkel Building, May 27 (and a honeymoon in Hawaii).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, NEW SYSTEMS ENGINEERS,”Welcome Timothy Johnson and Michael Roberts, new employees as of June 5.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, PARTNERSHIPS,”Steve Lasure of the Runkel Building represented Cray Research in our sponsorship of Eau Claire School District math contests in grades 4, 5, and 6 this spring. Nineteen elementary schools participated in the tournament held at DeLong Junior High, with approximately 600 attendees. Team winners were, first place, Sam Davey School; second, Cleghorn; and third, Arlington. Among the individual winners was Brendon Nacewicz, 5th grade, Mt. Washington, son of Mark Nacewicz of Product Support.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-15, MARRIED IN HAWAII,”Was Nancy Bruhn, Manufacturing, and Dean Gerrits, on March 27. Best wishes!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-15, NEW EMPLOYEES,”~lcane LeRoy Beckman, Printed Circuits; Elizabeth Penrod and Kelly Scott, Manufacturing.”

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CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-13, NIGHTHAWKS,”These high flyers, who like to nest on the top of buildings, came down to earth in Engineering’s bricked center courtyard. Mother and child huddled together in the shade of a picnic table almost as if asleep–but became lively when people came too close. The chick had no flight feathers, but could certainly run. The fa~her visits evenings. The birds are nocturnal. The good news is we’vejinaJly produced a Cray-6 prototypethal’~the size of a doughnut. The bad news is Mr. Hamumy just dunJced it in hiS coffee. CRAY CHIPS ..L6 publ..L6h<?-d by Edna. BwlVl.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, END OF AN ERA,”The reign of the CRAY X-MP computer systems is at an end, giving way to the more powerful CRAY Y-MP line, with nineteen different models. The CRAY X-MP has been enormously successful and needs yield only to more superior products of our own. Cray Research built 189 CRAY X-MP computers in eight basic model types, including the EA systems, with one to four processors and onemillion to 64-million words of memory. The Serial 500 and 1300 EA are “”se”” systems, economy models priced at oDly $2.5 to $3.5 million. The first shipment of a CRAY X-MP system to a customer (Government) was June 10, 1983, just over six years ago. The first four-processor CRAY X-MP system was born in 1984 and christened “”Abner.”” The last three CRAY X-MP systems to be produced were Serials 1109, 1209, and 1316. They’re still “”super””!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-27, AN INVITATION FROM THE SCHOOLS,”””The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District is sponsoring a school-coomunity workshop on Wednesday, August 16. . . . We would be most pleased and honored if employees fran Cray would be interested in attending.”” The place is the Middle School, wi th parents, faculty, and other community members participating. UNDERACHIEVEMENT SYNDROME: CAUSES AND CURES 8: 30-10: 45 am Michael M. Cornale, Asst. Director, Family AchievEment Clinic, Oconamwac DISCIPLINE AND THE DIFFICULT CHIlD 11-12:30 Mary !.Du Decker, Specialist lDMEWORK: IDW YOU CAN HELP! 1: 30-3 Ruth Harris, Northwest Reading Clinic WHAT 00 YOU KN(M AOOur AIDS? 1:30-3 Sally Swenson, R.N., School Nurse”

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CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, A DEATH IN OUR FAMILY,”John Rollwagen’s father, Clare A., died last week at the age of 0 71 after a lengthy illness. Mr. Rollwagen was one of the early investors in Cray Research. He was retired and had been living in Florida. Our sympathy, John.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, WELCOME A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Warren Kerola began August 21, a Component Engineer in Manufacturing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, A LITTLE BIT 0′ HEAVEN,”Jean Phillips of Manufacturing and her husband, Kevin, were blessed with a baby daughter September 6 and named her Caitlin Elizabeth. MORE FROM THE MAYO LETTER, AUGUST The Far Side / B Gary Larson “”Custom knee braces — if you do tear your anterior cruciate ligament, a brace can be custom-made to help stabilize your knee. • • This type of brace requires a physician’s prescription. In most instances, you can recover from a torn ligament without surgery. · • a young, com- ‘ n!7J petitive athlete usually requires ~~~. ,I reconstructive surgery to continue ,~ in sports. • . a custom brace can protect the knee during recovery and aid in preventing reinjury once the athlete resumes competition. Obviously, preventing knee injuries is desirable. But more work is needed to engineer a brace that truly is preventive.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, DUCKS UNLIMITED,”The Muscovy is back, too, in the First Avenue water. It likes to hang out on the beaver dam. A few coots show up small and dark, with white bills, amid the mallards. In the Riverside duck pond a female wood duck nudges a male (her child? her mate?) off a favorite spot on the sunning log. ‘”” don’t know what to tell you, Mr. Ewald.., but something has definitely gone awry with your workout program. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-14, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT  MENDOTA HEIGHTS OPERATIONS,”Bob Ewald joined the Company in 1984 and has made a considerable impact in just five years. But his background is such that we might have considered him an associate for many years previously. At the Los Alamos National Laboratory Bob was responsible for the operation and leadership of one of the world’s most advanced scientific computing facilities, the heart of which of course were and are the numerous CRAY computer systems there. His earlier experience was with Sperry-Univac, the University of Colorado, and the U.S. Military Academy. Bob has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, where he was raised, and a master’s from the U. of Colorado. In 1984, SCIENCE DIGEST magazine named him one of the one hundred brightest young scientists in the United States. And he’s disgustingly young, just over 40. Bob lives in Golden Valley and has a son and a daughter. Besides work, which he obviously enjoys, Bob is interested in flying, weight lifting, skiing, and gardening.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-21, A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Welcome Alan Retlick, Reliability, who joined the Company September 11.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-05, OUR TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT,”Chester A. Arthur ascended to the Presidency through the tragedy of the assassination, after only a few roonths in office, of President Garfield, in 1881. Arthur was born on this date, October 5, in 1829; and became a lawyer, a New Yorker, and a Republican. He was also an aboli tionist, and in one court case secured a decision that slaves brought into New York while in transit between two slave states were thereby made free. A strong party machine politician on entering office, he rose above {X)litics as President, earning nationwide respect. Reform of the civil service system was one of his accomplishments. During Arthur’s administration the Brooklyn Bridge was built, three new railroad lines reached the Pacific, and standard time was adopted (the railroads giving the push). One of the problems he inherited was an annual surplus in the treasury of roore than $100 million! A man of wealth and taste, President Arthur was appalled by his perception of the condition of the White House when he assumed office. He cleared out and sold at public auction 24 wagonloads of furnishing “”abaninations.”” Then he had the famous Louis Tiffany do a lavish redecoration, the roost exciting innovation a stained glass screen reaching from floor to ceiling in the north entrance. Unfortunately Teddy Roosevelt had it removed in his renovation, and all that remains are black-and-white photographs. “”Elegant Arthur”” was a handsome widower with three children when he became President–a roost’eligible catch–but he remained unmarried. He died of kidney disease at the age of 56, not long after leaving office.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, HUNTSVILLE DISASTER,”The loss of lives, numerous injuries, and terrible destruction caused by the tornadoes in Huntsville made us anxious about our people there. Last Thursday morning I called the Huntsville Sales Office, and LurIa Harris reported “”all the sites are fine, and everybody that works for Cray is all right.”” We have three installations in the area: LurIa said she can see the Alabama Supercomputer Center, where Serial 428 CRAY X-MP has been in operation for the past two years. The Army Strategic Defense Command Simulation Center, home of Serial 330 CRAY X-MP, is close by; and not too many miles away is NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where a four-processor CRAY X-MP system is installed. Our Bill Wilkinson’s little daughter, Jessie, age 6!, attended the grade school that was destroyed. She was in the group of children still in the building in an extended day program. Two women in charge herded the thirty kids into a small area beneath a stairwell, and all were safe. (There were 200 youngsters at the famous Space Camp, all of whom were OK, too.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-04, CHIEF HONOREE,”Roger G. Brown of the Runkel Building has the distinction of being a fifteenyear Cray Research employee, as of October 16 last year. During the fourth quarter these became ten-year veterans: Chris Hsiung, Jeff Galde, Karl LeMay, Glen Peterson, Gary Shorrel, Wayne Bostel, Hollis (Neill) Haggard, Jan Krahn, Lou Collins, Corrine Beckstrom, Linda Harvey, June Thompson, Barry Nesja, Dick Steitz, Judith Goettl, Dick Eberhardt, Karen Anderson, Dennis Girling, Susan Erickson, Jerry Cherrier, Becky Drum, and Frank Chism. These employees celebrated five-year anniversaries: Katie Kroll, Gary Simmons, Gerry Sweitzer, Cynthia Joles, Carol Berg, Roxanne Lloyd, Florence Gustavson, Jill Mayer, Donna Krause, Jennifer Swoboda, Jacqueline Brown, Kim Stoll, Kathleen Taylor, Margaret Zehm, Jeanne Hansman, Terry Jacobson, Kathleen Seidlitz, Kathy Rasmus, Mark Crowley, Mary Strassman, Margaret Smith, Rose DeVolve, Julie Smith, Dick Steinmetz, Lori Johnson, Julie Alix, Lynn Roshell, Nancy Kuechenmeister, Julie Boivin, Manuel Vallejos, Howard Burr, Maryann Rohde, Karen Werle, Darlene Paskett, Steven Winger, Ron Curtis, James Peterson, Diane Paulsrud, Sheri Maki, Kathy Peterson, Lauri Anderson, Perry Franz, Michael Hansman, Joseph Christensen, Pete Nohelty, Patrick Rykal, Kevin Hutchinson, Sandra Hass, Michael Halstead, David Swierczek, Randall Halverson, and Diane Berg. On January 1, 1975, Cray Research had 31 employees; on January 1, 1980, 505; and on January 1, 1990, an estimated 5006.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-04, CHILD CARE RECOGNITION AWARD,”Our efforts to promote excellent child care services have brought us this award from the Lieutenant Governor’s Office. Says the Honorable Scott McCallum: “”You are to be commended not only for your service to your employees, but for serving as an innovative leader to the rest of the business community …. congratulations on your award.”” When Roger Brown of the National YMCA was here in November, he said the child care addition to the Chippewa YMCA was the best Y child care in the State–the only Y facility built especially for the purpose, he thought.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-25, I LOVE TO TRAVEL,”In late summer, for the very first time, I visited Yellowstone National Park. Although my husband was a Wyomingite and we were as near as Cody, he declined to take me to our premier National Park–too many people, he said. (We did go to Glacier, which was an eye-thrilling experience.) Yellowstone was beautiful, and huge (roan for lots of people). One could spend weeks and roonths there in order to see everything. Not having a previous impression for canpar i son , I could not see that the raging fires of the previous StmIner, that stmner of drought everywhere, had done pennanent damage. The trees will grow again. New growth in grasses and other ground cover was rampant. The flowers were unbelievable. Never before had I seen fields of blue lupin; daisy types–brown-eyed susans and solid gold; and masses of beautiful rose-colored fireweed. Fireweed is an ugly name; lovely flowers shouldn’t be called weeds. The other Mrs. Bunn, my sister-in-law Dorothy, had signed us up for a three-day course in “”Mudpots, Geysers, and Hot Springs.”” Wi th a professional on a teaching assigrunent, we were able to leave the safety of the boardwalks and go out among the puddles–with dire warnings of terrible burns fran hot splashes. Dr. Duncan Foley, at dinner in the Old Faithful Inn the first evening, asked me with a smirk if Leinenkugel’s was as good as ever. Although fran Washington State, he had spent t~ at school in Wisconsin–a good instructor. It was I who had insisted we stay at the Inn, one of the musts on a visit to Yellowstone. It is such a famous great old timber lodge, not fancy, not expensive, no phones- dangling unshaded light bulbs and showers down the hall- a fun place. The fires came close to the Inn, and visitors were evacuated. Forty miles away, in the Sunlight Basin where Dorothy’s family has their “”cabin”” (royal hunting lodge), residents also had to leave their property. The waterfalls were beautiful. I wasn’t crazy about the mudpots, or even the hot springs–interesting, yes, but not pretty. The geysers, of course, were spectacular; not surprisingly, my favorite was “”Riverside.”” Dorothy wasn’t able to find me a bear, but elk, rooose, bison, and swans were quite acceptable. In the early 1900s, it was feared the trumpeter swan would became extinct in the United States. Fewer than a hundred were counted. Now there are nearly a thousand.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-15, RECENT HIRES,”WeI cane these new employees: Jeffrey Barr, I.C. process technician; Michael Thanas and 1X>uglas Joseph, security guards; Scott Derksen, drafter; Roy Ploeckelman, canputer operator.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, THE FIRST AND BEST,”In grade school, I didn’t believe anything we were taught about George Washington. The wooden teeth were as unlikely as the cherry tree bit. Now, with knowledge of the record of his character and achievements, I am prepared to believe almost anything about this noble man. George Washington was born 258 years ago today in Virginia, and was educated by private tutors. He was a surveyor and a planter before becoming Commander in Chief of the First Continental Army and the First President of the United States. That is the title he chose, though there were those who would have made him a king. With a lesser person, the great experiment might have failed. President Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789. He had to borrow lOOney for the cost of the trip fran Mount Vernon. The population of the United States was est:imated at 3,700,000 at the time. This flag of 1789 excludes Rhode Island, which did not ratify the Constitution until 1790. The states of Vennont, Kentucky, and Tennessee were admitted during Washington’s two terms of office. In 1790 Philadelphia was chosen the temporary Capital. The only president not to live in the White House, President Washington selected the site and approved the design by James Hoban, winner of the open architectural canpetition and $500. What Washington called the “”President I s House”” in the “”Federal City”” was not to be ready for occupancy until 1800. FranCONSTITUTIONquarterly, Fall/1988: “”All the electors in the first elections–1789 and 1792–agreed that George Washington was the only person for the presidency ••.. Among Washington’s great accomplishments were nurturing into being the beginnings of a cabinet system and helping to develop a strong and independent judiciary that would soon define and quantify the loose frrunework of the Constitution’s wording. He was able to do so because he was perceived as incorruptible and above the battle. . • • Such disinterested high-mindedness was never absolutely the case after Washington. II”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, WEPI,”A meeting of the Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiatives arm of the Cray Foundation was held last Wednesday at the Pupil Service Center with Bill Linder-Scholer, Julie Stafford, Steve Hogseth, Del Diffendorfer, Carl Wehman, Marv Bausman, and Edna Bunn attending. The Cray Leadership Academy is flourishing and expanding. All school administrators who have had any contact with this new program are enthusiastic about it. On January 31 the session at the Civic Center included the participation of twelve new school teams comprising superintendents, principals, and teachers. An exciting event upcoming will be a full day, March 8, at Stillson School devoted to interaction of the kids with “”real live”” scientists and engineers. Steve Hogseth is the leader in this timely endeavor involving many of our people. The evening program will be even better, when the pupils bring their parents back to school for a potpourri of scientific demonstrations. Not specifically in connection with National Engineers Week, but certainly apropos, are the one-hour presentations several of our employees are making at UW-Stout. Ron Curtis arranged the appearances of John Lien on February 14, Terry McDougall on February 21, and Al Rivers on February 28. Because our educational partnerships are so important, we would like to know who all our people are that speak before school groups, etc. Just give me a little note at Riverside Project.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-01, A CHILD IN GREAT NEED,”John Bauer of Engineering Applications, Mendota, has a little girl three years old with gangliosidosis, a disease fatal without treatment. The only treatment is a bone marrow transplant. Fortunately the University of Minnesota is a leader and pioneer in the field. However, Prudential has ruled that the procedure would be investigative and so is not covered under our insurance plan. The cost will be horrendous. John is planning to liquidate all their assets, but that will not be half the amount needed. He needs help; Cray Research employees help. Checks should be made out to “”Hannah Bauer Transplant Fund.”” In Wisconsin send to Becky Bieno in Product Support. In Minnesota, to Dorothy Olson, SDIVMH. Americas Operations employees, directly to National Children’s Cancer Society, 3 Sunset Hills Exec. Park Suite 4, Edwardsville, IL 62025 (but be sure to make check out to Hannah Bauer fund). Cray Research will match, of course, and your gift will not count against your $5000 maximum. For more information, call Molly Warren, extension 6449. John says, “”My family’s sincerest thanks for your consideration, your thoughtfulness, and your contribution to Hannah’s fight for life.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-01, PRE-RETIREMENT PLANNING,”Again this year pre-retirement information and advice will be offered in seven weekly planning sessions beginning Tuesday, March 20. The place is the Product Support Training Room, from 6 to 8 pm. Each meeting will explore a different topic, such as Social Security, Legal/Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Health/Leisure, and Cray Benefits. Employees are welcome to bring their spouses or guests. Call Becky Bieno at extension 2223 to say you will attend.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Give a hearty welcome handshake to Daniel Anderson, IC process technician hired March 12.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, STILLSON V.I.S.I.T. PROGRAM,”On March 15, Cray Research, the Wisconsin Elanentary Science Teachers, and the Stillson PTO sponsored a progrwm to promote science education for Stillson’s children (grades K through 5). Throughout the day, scientists presented “”hands on”” programs to help the students gain an appreciation for science in the real world. During the evening, the kids brought their parents back to school to experience nearly 30 scientific activities and demonstrations which provided direct interaction with participating scientists and engineers. While Cray Research helped provide financial support for this event, the program’s REAL success was largely due to the volunteer efforts of 20 Cray engineers and scientists. The following anployees provided their t:ime and talents to help broaden young minds: Chris Anderson, Rick Austin, Brad Bartilson, Tan Chojnacki, Ron Curtis, Chuck Fuller, Steve Gunderson, Steve Hogseth, Ruth Holliday, Tan Hotle, Terry Jacobson, Steve Lasure, John Lien, Jim Mandelert, Dave Morton, Pete Peloquin, Brad Sni th, Greg Thorson, Mark Vogel, and Jeff Wingad. TIle children were absolutely thrilled with the day! On behalf of these kids, THANKS to all our volunteers. (I think our Cray participants had as much fun as they!) Any Cray “”scientist”” who would like to becane involved with science education is invited to do so. The likelihood of similar (but probably less formal) programs evolving for other schools is good. But to help with future requests, we need a larger volunteer pool. Please talk with any of the aoove participants and I’m sure they will offer their encouragement. If you are interested, contact one of the manbers of Cray Foundation’s Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiatives (WEPI manbers include Marv Bausnan, Edna Bunn, Del Diffendorfer, Dave Frasch, Bill Linder-Scholer, Steve Hogseth, Julie Stafford, and Carl Wehman) • With a strong volunteer base, we can cover many schools without having individual “”burnout. “” (Note: 3M Canpany has over 400 scientists in their volunteer base for a similar program.) You’re invited to give it a try!! STEVE HOGSETH”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29,” “”””””THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS”””””””,”Two made parents at Development happy this month. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Briski’s daughter, Courtney Clark, was born on March 12; George and Carol Wos’s Bridget Monique on March 18. Our roving receptionist, Susan Christensen, and her husband, Rob, had a baby girl on March 14, named Haley Joann.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES,”Sue Bunce, computer operator, and Randall Coley, mechanical drafter.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-05, APPRECIATION OF YEARS OF SERVICE,”This time the Tech Ops people will be noted first (sometimes overlooked in the past). Kathleen Welin and Donald Heian reached their TEN-YEAR anniversary in the first quarter of 1990. These are the FIVE-YEAR veterans: Tom Proue, William Korb, Jeffrey Schutkoske, Kelly Begley, Janet Braemer, John Higgins, Howard Mundy, Clifford Wickman, David Turgeon, Anne Chenette, James Ryan, Tessa Haas, Lynn Hannahs, Mark Larson, Emily Nieters, and Karl Stahmer. Other TEN-YEAR honorees in January: Rene Copeland, Mary McDiarmid, Howard Watts, Tom Baltz, Jim Grill, Leitha Swanson, and Kathleen Spaeth. February: Liz Poland, Gene Somdahl, Barb Amlotte, Ed Barnard, Carl Diem, Derek Robb, Joan Bowe, Roberta Culbert, and Cynthia Chase. March: Robbie Cordo, Vivian Frion, Virginia Lighthizer, Lorena Simpson, Judy Markow, Carol Kammeyer, Willa Schick, Donna Sly, Louise Sonsalla, Wendalyn Thompson, Maryanne Jolicoeur, and Carol Weiss. Congratulations also to these in the FIVE-YEAR category. Reaching the magic date in January: James Seeley, Becky Bieno, Ramona Hoch, Francis Adams, Curt Bergeron, James Zenner, Todd Andringa, Peter Kuhn, Tammy Dachel, David Blodgett, Constance Denucci, David Bishop, John Shear, Randy Rieder, Lisa Lindner, Christine Kern, Suzanne Schroeder, Joyce Olson, William Tepp, James Pederson, Thomas Dachel, Daniel Berg, Eleanor Erickson, Jon Mathwig, Gregg Wheeler, Terri Jasper, Geralyn Becker, Nadji Nyen, Suzanne Johnson, Pamela Jensen, Richard Teigen, Felicia Branshaw, Christine Jacobson, Cindy Kucko, Rosemary Forsythe, Mary Bourget, Gisele Svacina, Sharon Rasmussen, Jean Gustafson, Sue Moulton, Brenda Walters, Tina Robbins, Maxine Fischer, Rhonda Schemenauer, Dana Boos, Sarah Schindler, Luella Benish, Alma Olds, Bonnie McConville, Kim Hughes, David LeMay, and Ann Miller. February: Deborah Piskoty, Michael McCluskey, William Reed, Cynthia Yohnk, Jon Molner, Mary Larson, Robert Peeso, Martha Westaby, Cindy Staves, Greg Faanes, Kari Nelson, Michael Arneson, Vicki Wilson, Linda Matott, William Meyer, Sharon Gullickson, Stacey Eckwright, Lisa Woods, Julie Potts, Hjordis Martell, Diane Lenfestey, Cheryl Wedemeyer, Denise Shervey, Richard Bauer, Mark Grindle, Patricia MathWig, Susan Ganther, Debra Gates, Debra Boehlke, Laverne Leavens, Janet Homme, Sharon Heinze, Kyle Felce, Sharon Kelly, Jane Loew, Jane Hestekin, Mary Mayer, Michael Frederick, Nancy Gauger, Sally Henry, Sally Kral, and Michele Sweeney. March: Kathleen Butler, Kim Ganther, Jon Kemper, Richard Guckenberg, Barbara Morrison, Curtis Swanson, Joseph Alf, Julie Kahl, Paul Kaiser, Elliot Schlimme, Peter Joas, Rick Fahnel, Paul Krumenauer, Paul Nadreau, James Jirak, Marjorie Harvey, Jeffrey Ferrell, Shelly Danielson, Donna Anders, Dana Turk, Bill Jurjens, Marvin Riemenschneider, Kay Sedlacek, Sheri Kremer, Tammy Hedrington, Shelley Goss, Bonnie Fisher, Roger Wilczek, Catherine Prueher, Debra Melland, Ruth Newton, Deborah Fenner, and Susan Smith.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, EARTH DAY 20 CHIPPEWA VALLEY,”This special effort was judged a success, even though more participation would have been welcome. In Chippewa Falls about 150 people did the walk through Irvine Park and received seedlings for tree planting. “”And a little child shall lead them,”” was evidenced. There were about 1200 in the parade in Eau Claire. Gaylord Nelson couldn’t be there because his presence was required at the national observance in Washington DC. He did speak at UW-Eau Claire on April 10. Cray Research was among the thirty supporting organizations of the Chippewa Valley project, which is sponsoring earthawareness activities through May. The Company Chippewa Giving Committee contributed $1000. For the good of the generations we hope to come, we must all do better- simple things, like lawn-watering early or late rather than in the middle of the day (not only is much lost through rapid evaporation, but you can boil your plants!). I pledge to use cloth napkins from now on, plant two trees, and be diligent in cleaning and sorting items for recycling.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, NEW EMPLOYEE,”Welcome Scott Strecker, test support engineer, hired April 23.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, NEWBORNS,”Congratulations to these proud parents: Lori Simpson (Y-MP modules) and her husband; Taylor Ann, March 31. Barb (Engineering) and Chad Arendt, Trista Sue, April 5; Mary (Engineering) and Buck Knutson, Cody Richard, April 25; and Roger (Manufacturing) and Carol Wilczek, Erica Lynn, April 30.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-10, WELCOME TO CRAY RESEARCH,”These are new employees as of April 30: Pamela Wallace, drafter, and Sandra Jorge and Dan Funk, engineers. Greet them!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, A WEDDING IN THE SPRING,Congratulations to Jeff Drummond and Janet Eberhart of Mendota who were married April 28.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-17, EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION – CHIPPEWA FALLS,”The top five percent of the graduating scholars of McDonell and Chippewa High Schools were honored at a banquet Monday, May 7, at the Fill Inn Station. There were 21 of them, and it was an evening filled with pride for their parents and favorite teachers who also received plaudits. Cray Research is proud, too, because of the many connected with our workforce: Don Olson’s son, Ryan; Cheryl Fehr’s daughter, Jennifer; Marie Halfen’s daughter, Shilo; Larry Briggs’ sister, Debbie; Stuart Drayton’s son, Scott; and Jerry Brost’s son, Jason. These are all of which we are aware–there may well be more- let me know.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, MORE SPRING WEDDINGS,”Best wishes to Lynn Boese of Building who were married on facturing, whose wedding day Systems, and his bride, Product Support and Jim Stoffel of the Runkel April 28; to Sue Yoost and Ken Arneson, Manuwas May 5; and to Brian Stickney, Riverside Val, whose marriage took place May 12. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, RECYCLING FOR CHIPPEWA FALLS,”Western Dairyland Recycling collects every month in Chippewa Falls as well as Eau Claire, free. Call 834-7780 to find out the date of the pickup for your route. Items must be sorted: newspapers, glass, aluminum cans, tin cans, etc. Inquire about other specific material to be picked up. There is also a drop-off center, open 24 hours 7 days a week, at the City Shops on Riverside Road just south of the Veterans Memorial Bridge.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, BEST WISHES,”To Judy King of the Runkel Building and her husband, Jerry Foust, who were married May 19.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-07, A WEDDING,Best wishes to Cindy Swoboda of the C-90 project who was married to Craig Pilgrim on May 12.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, OTHER ADDITIONS,”Welcome Michael Buchman, CAD engineer, and Daniel Dravis, manufacturing engineer, new employees as of June 4.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, OUR LITTLE ONES,”From Site Engineering: daughters born to Jay and Sharon Young on May 26, Katie Marie; and Ron and Glenda Rablin, Shantel Marie, on June 6. From the Runkel Building comes the report of a baby girl, Emily Jane, being born to Dan and Jill Mattison on June 13. Congratulations!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, This Way to the Pate,”The common ant, though small of size, At picnics loves to socialize. An explorer of sorts, It will run through your shorts On its way to your pates and pies.B.C. Rowley. Victoria. British Columbia. Canada “”Before we go, would you mind whacking off some of those tall weeds over there?”” FLOWER & GARDEN CRAY CHIPS~ pub~hed byEdna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, OTHER BABIES,”Four baby raccoons were discovered in the parking lot at Manufacturing after their mother was killed by a car. Rick Herrick and Mark Wagner of Traffic managed to capture the very young cute little rascals, and they are now in residence at the O’Neil Creek Petting Zoo. The great crested flycatcher parents are teaching their kids to catch bugs. Source: Lyme Borreliosis Foundation, Inc. CRAY CHIPS~ pub~hed byEdna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, PURE WATER DAYS,”Our participation should not be limited to the $1000 contribution toward the building of the new official Pure Water Days Float. We have two young lady candidates to support. Keith Schrader’s daughter, Melanie, is runnin~ for Pure Water Days Queen, and Jeff Rowan’s Rachel for Little Miss. Be sure to buy your PWD button from one of them–or both of them! Why not!! Just $1.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, A FAMILY TRAGEDY,”A Printed Circuits employee’s son has been burned and is in critical condition at the Burn Center in St. Paul. He received burns over 95 percent of his body. If you would like to contribute to a fund the P.C. facility is creating for the family, please send your donation to Karen Anderson.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, RECENT ADDITIONS,”New employees as of July 2: Ronald Olson and Michael Higgins, engineers, and Carlotta Weihrouch, security guard. New hires on July 9: Cathy Bohl, accounting clerk, and Gary Herber, drafter. Welcome them!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-02, A NEW EMPLOYEE,”Give a welcome to Donald Henning, our new security guard, hired July 30.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, THE SYMBOL IS THE LONE OAK,”Here is a preview of what you will see when you visit Cray Research Park in Eagan, Minnesota, for the celebration on September 22. Taking Lone Oak Drive off Lone Oak Road is just a pleasant drive through the Minnesota countryside, until–you’re in the Loire Valley in France with one of the great chateaux before you! It looks like a palace with a moat! But the moat is really the “”pond,”” with about fifty Canadian honkers on the shore. The palace is four several-storied structures built around atriums and into the hillside on various levels, all connected by enclosed and skylighted passages. The address is 655 Lone Oak Drive, and the buildings are designated A, D, E, and F (B and C are yet to come). Eventually all Minnesota operations will be housed in Cray Research Park. The buildings are not segregated by department, but have a nice mix for interaction. Software Training and the executive floor are in Building A. CCN (Corporate Computing and Networks) is in E (perhaps the greatest concentration of computer power in the world?). Building F has Software, Tech Ops, and Marketing Support. The commons is in Building D, a wonderful place. It fronts the pond, has a skylight and pergola, and a meadow on the side. The dining rooms seat 400 (there are two private ones). The “”Off-Line Cafe”” was the winner in a contest to name the dining area. There is full food service, and a lounge with a fireplace! Many lounges and relaxing-thinking areas exist throughout the complex. I won’t even try to describe the beautiful furnishings and striking and harmonious color schemes. You’ll just have to see for yourself. Sherry Buckley met me last Saturday at the “”second staircase up from the parking lot, by the big blue sign,”” and gave me a really grand tour. Ground for the facilities was broken in January 1989, and from May of last year until recently, Sherry, Jim Liska, and Eric Lindahl oversaw all aspects of the construction from a trailer parked on the site. (Mick Oyer of Software, his wife, and child were also visiting. All employees are welcome.) True to tradition, there was a Bunn coffeemaker, and true to tradition, the heat was still turned on under an almost empty pot! Bunn to the rescue- just like in Chippewa Falls.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-16, ANNIVERSARIES,”Today is my anniversary date–eighteen years with Cray Research. It was a pleasant sunny day, August 16, 1972, and very convenient going to work at 419 High Street, just afeNblocks frcm hane. (These pranises now house the Jolly Giraffe child care center.) The desk on order for me had not yet arrived, so Seyrrour very kindly cleared out a drawer in his desk and one in the credenza for my use; and I was to sit at his desk in his absence. I did have a typing stand to do purchase orders and miscellaneous correspondence. It was also the day of the fifth meeting of the Board of Directors. The business of the meeting included discussion of major investors in the Company and granting of key employee stock options (with only ten anployees, we were all key!). It was agreed an insurance policy on “”the life of the President of the Company”” should be obtained. Workmen I s Canpensation coverage was reported as having been taken care of. “”President Cray advised that the building which he was erecting on his land in the Town of Hallie would be available for occupancy about September 1, 1972.”” The Directors IOOved to lease the building for a period of five years. C!he Beaver Creek calendar says ”Walking Sticks are abundant”” at this time. Were they ever abundant at the Hallie Lab–on the windows, everywhere!).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-16, TWINS!,”There’s a bit of a baby boom in Traffic. On July 23 Bill Nazar became the father of twins, and the best kind: a boy and a girl–Brianna Katherine and Brady William. This is in no way to belittle Brittany Darlene, born on July 14 to Wyatt Woodford and Roberta Stevens of IC Test. Or TiIoothy Gerard, Jeff (RivSys) and Beth Aldrich’s little son born on July 28.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-30, NEW EMPLOYEES,”Give a welcome greeting to these new co-workers as of August 27: Scott Neidermyer and Steven Sedlacek, IC process technicians; Marilyn Teigen and Bruce Hartwig, security guards; and Robert Bauer, production machinist.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-06, THANK YOU FROM JOLLY GIRAFFE,”Joan Anderson writes: “”Enclosed find photo of a jungle gym paid for by Cray employees in the form of matching funds; they are Linda Johnson, Sherry Lowater, Sue Christensen, Cindy Glass, and Jim Jackson. The staff and children of the Jolly Giraffe Child Center want to thank Cray for this significant addition to our playground.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, BONE MARROW EFFORT,”Thank you for the good response to the information offer re possible transplant for Bruce Nelson. Bruce has now undergone another series of massive chemotherapy treatments and is still in the Cancer Center in Minnesota. Des and baby Valerie left Chippewa last Thursday to go to see him. Arrangements have been made to do the blood tests that reveal possible bone marrow donors right here in Tech Ops on October 9 and 10. But we need more volunteers. The National Bone Marrow people would like to have at least a hundred to make their trip worthwhile. For all those who inquired, and for all those additional we hope will take the test, there are new forms that need to be filled out; they are available at your reception desk. Just bring them with you when you come to take the test, which takes only about five minutes. Another thing: You will not be registering just for Bruce. Your HLA typing will be recorded, and you may at some future time have another opportunity to try to save a life. Questions? Call Max Mueller, 4330; Judi Kysilko, 4406; or Merey Price, 2476.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-04, FIFTEEN-YEAR OBSERVANCE,”Congratulations to Jerry Perkovich, Al Sterling, Dick Dellacca, Les Drehmel, John Rollwag~n, and Janet Robidoux who reached their fifteen-year anniversaries with Cray Research during the third quarter. These are now in the TEN-year veterans group: Marla Adrian, Dianne Bauer, Dale Gumness, Terry Johnson, Kevin Kelly, Julie Kittleson, Kay Lubs, Sharon McDonell, Deborah Martell, Connie Peterson, Linda Rowe, Doug Schemenauer, and Cheryl Wergedal. Happy FIVE-year anniversary to these 136 employees: JULY — Cathy Southard, Nancy Parker, Tim McCann, Michelle Kent, Devon Dewey, Michael Seitz, James Sarauer, Tom Hinrichs, Dan Sullivan, Dan Studiner, Kathy Channing, Mary Jo Tichey, Jeff Gabriel, Vern Swanson, and Terry Davis. AUGUST — John Wagner, Jim Lindberg, Kevin Hampton, Pat Strasburg, Kathy Sokup, Leslie Zwiefelhofer, Lisa Sedahl, Jim Woodmansee, Carol Campbell, Penny Polhamus, Linda Phillips, Thomas Mayer, Nancy Smith, Debra Demotts, Keith Carmen, Cheryl Kandler, Robin Johnson, Paul Bertram, Gerald Moore, Brian Eystad, Mary Jo Zwiefelhofer, Joyce Glenna, Gladys Reichert, Geraldine Johnson, Mary Metz, Ruth Ann Oberg, Brenda Buttke, Elizabeth Gorman, Diane Harper, Karen Olszewski, Cheryl Pecha, Becky Germain, Pam Fleming, Mark Peterson, Rhonda Nazer, Karen Hobart, Kathy Luedke, Julie Lagesse, Michael Kurtz, Ron Leibl, Gary Mohr, Dave Petersen, Kim Rogge, Henrietta Boos, Dorothy Markham, Laura Brown, Joanne Thill, Arlan Clo~ier, Mark Strizic, Chris Anderson, and Hashem Heidaragha. SEPTEMBER– Mary Sullivan, Jeff Aldrich, Mark Strycharske, Bonnie Langel, Sheryl Pittman, Linda Klett, Jeff Kuster, Randy Knowlton, Jane Novacek, Brian Stickney, Delores Brun, Debbie Hanson, Linda Nielsen, Jeff Williams, Brenda Yohnk, Robert Maatta, Candace Polinski, Randy Facklam, Lorne Patzoldt, Russ Rajala, Thomas Morganroth, Ted Holler, Joe Placek, Bill Hunter, Scott Aadalen, Jim Whitelaw, Larry Champion, Brian Ruff, Barb Close, Dave Brehm, Michael Tkachuk, Loretta Anderson, Susan Gass, Melissa Samens, Eleanon3Briggs, Henry Erickson, Laurie Hayes, Denise Dulian, Rosemary O’Connell, Joanne Van Den Heuvel, Rose Sikora, Dianne Swoboda, Denise Sikora, Floretta Wilhelm, Luanne Ryba, Mary Berg, Karen Chance, Joyce Birch, Cheryl Storm, Kim Haley, Cheryl Schoettl, Rhonda Walloch, Bev Christofferson, Yvonne Wenzel, Al Jorstad, Kim Dachel, Janet Walker, Kelly Walters, Nancy Gerrits, Sharon Clark, Mary Ducommun, and Teresa Nelson. AND TECH OPS — Susan Gorski, Kelly Jones, David Fastner, Gerald Hoehn, Dennis Guldan, Jill Hietpas, Andrea Moses, and Michael Mathews.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-11, NEW EMPLOYEES TO GREET,”Welcome Philip Foltz, I.C. process technician; David Resnick, applications engineer; Allison Claussen, computer operator; and Yvonne Paffel, mechanical engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, A VERY GOOD DEED,”Ninety-six Cray Research employees had blood drawn as possible bone marrow donors at Tech Ops on October 9 or 10. The National Marrow Donor Center in St. Paul sent two American Red Cross people to do the procedure. They will be happy to come again if we have more volunteers. Call Max Mueller, extension 4330, or Judi Kysilko, 4406, if you are willing to donate. Meanwhile, Des sent a hopeful report. Bruce has been home since last Friday but has to return to the U. of M. clinic today, to learn the results of the bone marrow biopsy he had last week. His temperature was down, so he was permitted a little furlough with his wife and baby daughter, Valerie. Des said, “”Bruce is feeling pretty good.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, WELCOME THESE NEW EMPLOYEES,”Richard Ninas and Carrie Swenson, security guards, and Kurt Kermes, systems engineer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-25, SOON TO BE WED,”An early “”congratulations”” to Bob Woodcock of Development who will be married to Kathy Kawell Friday evening, October 26.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-01, BLESSED BOY BABY,”Congratulations to Paul Bjorklund, Product Support, and his wife, Kerry, to whom a son, Cameron Paul, was born on October 26. COMPUTER WITH HEART BATTLES HYPERTENSION Excerpts from an article in the MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, October 10: “”High-speed Cray crunches numbers that approximate what happens inside the body’s blood vessels — Area scientists studying high blood pressure are augmenting traditional medical research techniques–and, they hope, chances of curing the disease–with mathematics, engineering, and a Cray ‘supercomputer.’ “”By using complex mathematical fornrulas to simulate functions of the vascular system and then feeding them into high-speed computers, the researchers are able to study processes too snaIl to be directly measured because they occur at a microscopic level. For example, the scientists have created computer models showing how exper~ntal factors affect individuals cells’ circulation, or the amount of oxygen in cells. ‘No technology exists to directly measure those changes, so the only way to conduct such exper~nts is to use computers to predict the outcomes,’ said Andrew S. Greene, an assistant professor of physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. “”The program is a collaboration between the Medical College’s physiology department and Marquette University’s mathematics, statistics and computer science department •••• The National Science Foundation also gives the collaborators free access, worth tens of thousands of dollars annually, to a Cray Research Inc. ‘supercomputer,’ •.• Researchers link up with the Cray computer in Pittsburgh through a microwave satellite transmission. “”Thcmas A. Weber, director of the National Science Foundation’s division for advanced scientific canputing, said such programs, which he dubbed ‘computer biology,’ were just beginning to emerge. • • • Dr. Greene cited numerous advantages of using canputer modeling, or simulations, in medical research: ‘It guides our exper~nts and allows us to avoid putting all our time and lOOney into a dead end.’ Peter J. Tonellato, Marquette mathematics professor, said, ‘If we can derive a mathematical model of a situation, then we can easily test the mathematical model. We just crunch away on the computer and let the computer do all the work.’ Researchers use large mathematical models based on laws of physics such as fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering, heat transport and the diffusion of IOOlecules. Such principles are useful because of similarities between how outside forces affect mechanical and biological objects. For example, both steel beams and tissues will break if stretched to a certain point. ‘Biological materials are the same as construction materials,’ Greene said. ‘Five or 10 years ago, none of what we’re doing was possible.'”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-01, WEDDING BELLS,”Congratulations and best wishes to Julie Luedtke and Eric Fischer, both of Development, who were married on October 6.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-29, A RAY OF NOVEMBER SUNSHINE,”A baby daughter born to Ben (Machining Center) and Karen Holzem, Amanda Marie, on November 21. Congratulations!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, ORDEAL,”Bruce Nelson has again undergone massive chemotherapy, almost total body radiation, and a harvesting of his own bone marrow. The bright spots have been being able to see and hold his baby daughter, Valerie, and the loving support of his wife, Des. Today may be the beginning of a miracle of medical science. The prayed-for bone marrow match has been found from among numerous volunteer donors. This is the day the transplantation is scheduledto be performed at the University of Minnesota.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, WORLD WAR II,”Tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Day; my,but 1941 was a long time ago. I was twenty, but dumb for my age. I learned a lot in the next few years. The threat of war had sent the government into a frenzy of “”defense plant”” construction. First I worked on the New Brighton project and then at Rosemount. These were both “”way out”” of Minneapolis at that time. I had to take a streetcar downtown to be on a certain corner by 6:30 am to be picked up for the trip to New Brighton. The pay was good. It was a shock to my poor father to learn I was earning more than he, who had had such a disheartening struggle just to make ends meet during the Depression. The next year I married, and my husband enlisted in the cadet program of the Army Air Corps. Meat and sugar were rationed, and I believe, butter. It was doubly difficult because I couldn’t cook. Working six days a week and an hour’s drive home from Rosemount didn’t leave much time to shop either. When there was any meat left, it was wieners or low-grade hamburger. (On the West Coast horsemeat was popular. It was available in pet shops and didn’t require ration coupons.) It was a treat to go out in the country on a Sunday (remember gas was rationed, too, and tires had all gone to war) and buy a chicken from a farmer, even though you had to draw it yourself (ugh!). My sweet tooth suffered from the shortage of candy and the non-existence of ice cream. There were no nylons and no elastic in your rayon underwear. But we gladly bore these inconveniences–they were what our people in uniform suffered. with On December 9, 1907, Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, in the Wilmington, Del.. post office. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis. (( Doyou realize that another The New Yotduul. ECVtf..y 40.6 Christmas ;s practically at our throats?”” CRAY CHIPSi.6 pub~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-13, A BLESSING OF THE SEASON,”Congratulations to Julie Court of Manufacturing and her husband, Mike, who had a baby boy on December 6. They named him Aaron Matthew.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-20, WONDERFUL RESPONSE,”Already by last Thursday the Hmong Christmas Orphan fund had received $100 from P.C. 1st shift, $100 from P.C. 2d shift, $100 from ELS, a sizable contribution from People Helping People, and new snowboots for every single child from Riverside Systems–and these are only part of the donations from Cray Research employees- true “”friends in need.”” On December 23, 1823, the poem “”A Visit from St Nicholas”” by Clement C. Moore was published anonymously in the Troy (New York) Sentinel. The. NewYOJtk.eJt “”You have cookie breath again.”” CRAY CHIPS~ pub~he.dby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-31, ‘BELLY-BUTTON’ SURGERY,”””Gallbladder removal is the nation’s most common type of surgery.”” (I didn’t know that!) The November Mayo Clinic Health Letter describes an operation in which “”the surgeon detaches the gallbladder and removes it through a hole in your abdomen that’s smaller than a dime. The technique hurts less, offers faster recovery and leaves only a tiny scar … “” “”The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver, and releases bile into the small intestine to aid digestion. When components of the bile precipitate, gallstones form. If the stones become lodged within the tract that drains the liver and gallbladder, they can block the passage of bile and cause pain. .. Your digestive system can work well without a gallbladder. . . . “”Laparoscopic cholecystectomy involves only two, quarter-inch punctures and two half-inch incisions. One hole is made in or near the navel, another is made below the breastbone. The incisions are made beneath the rib cage on Your child’s safety depends on your willingness to use the safety seat correctly . . . following the the right side. Instruments are slipped into the abdanen through sleeve-like tubes in the incisions. Next, the surgeon inflates the abdanen with carbon dioxide. One instrument contains a tiny video camera tha t monitors progress of the procedure. The surgeon grasps the sac-like gallbladder, cuts it free with a laser or electric cutting device and then pulls the gallbladder out through the navel puncture.”” The operation requires a general anesthetic and takes about an hour. Hagar the Horrible/ By Dik Sh:mne CRAYCHIPS~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-31, KINSHIP SEEKS VOLUNTEERS,”Kinship of Chippewa County is looking for responsible, caring and enthusiastic adults who are interested in sharing those qualities with a young person. Being a Kinship volunteer is fun, rewarding, challenging–and important. You can brighten the life of a child and enrich your own at the same time. Our volunteers make positive and lasting impressions on young people who need a friend to share smiles, laughter, new activities arid an encouraging word. Please consider sharing your talents, your interests, your time and your concern with the youth in our community! For more information call Juli or Michelle at Kinship, 723-0881.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-31, PRE-RETIREMENT PLANNING,”Once again a Pre-Retirement Planning Program is offered to employees and their spouses (or guest). All ages are welcome, but the program is targeted for those 45 and older. Sessions will begin Tuesday, February 19, 6-8 pm, and run for seven consecutive Tuesday evenings. The place is the Development Video Room; topics covered: Financial Planning, Cray Benefits, Social Security, Legal/Estate Planning, and Health/Leisure Planning. If you would like to enroll in the program or need more information, call Becky Bieno, Development, extension 1575.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, IT HELPS TO SHARE,”Having a spouse, child, or other loved one in or near the Persian Gulf is cause for feelings of loneliness, fear, and resentment. It helps to talk about it, especially with others who are going through the same experience. A support group meets every Wednesday from noon to one O’clock in Manufacturing Conference Room A. Come and gain consolation through sharing.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, REPORT ON THE VUE CHILDREN,”You remember the eight Hmong children who were left parentless before Christmas and for whom we all tried to do a little bit. Patti Andersen of P.C. Development has done a great deal. She says, “”The children did spend Christmas at my house, and they had a great time opening their gifts and trying on their new clothes.”” A total of $905.80 was raised, plus some good used clothing, and boots for every child from Riverside Project. Most of the money was spent on clothes and Christmas presents; $60 went into the children’s trust fund, and a cheese-and-sausage box to their foster home. (Not surprisingly, they are having difficulty adjusting to the foster home.) From Patti: “”All the kids said a big thank you to the people at Cray for the clothes and for being so nice to them. Tell everyone thanks for all the help. It was worth it all just to see those big smiles on their faces, when everything in their little lives is gone.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, WEDDING IN THE WEST INDIES,”Congratulations and best wishes to our former Judy Ogurek of Y-MP Modules Manufacturing and her new husband, Gordon Oler. They were married in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on February 2.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-14, WE’RE INVOLVED,”The daughter Df Gary (Manufacturing) and Lori Rowin, Ghinnah, is the 1991 Youth Ambassador for the Easter Seal Society of Wisconsin. She began this year’s campaign by meeting with Governor Tommy Thompson recently. Ghinnah will also be making a public appearance for the annual telethon to be broadcast on WEAU-TV (Channel 13) on March 2 and 3. Ghinnah is an eighth grader at the Chippewa Falls Middle School and has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Gary is enthusiastic about the work of the Easter Seals organization. Ninety-five percent of the contributions received go toward helping the disabled in Wisconsin. Gary, Ghinnah, and the rest of the Rowin family, along with Candace Hennekens, who is Cray Research’s representative to Easter Seals this year, will be appearing on the telethon. The Company has also agreed to sponsor a halfhour segment of the telethon on Sunday afternoon. Please feel free to make a donation at any time to Easter Seals. These may be sent to Gary in Manufacturing or Candace in the Runkel Building. Don’t forget to fill out a matching gifts form if the contribution is $10 or greater.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-28, ~1EDICAL ESSAY Mayo Clinic Health Letter January 1991,”seem so terrifving. Death looked more like a friend who could release me and my family from a long, painful ordeal. But instead of dying – the only option for people in my condition a few lears before – I became a candidate for organ transplantation. Between midnight and 10 in the morning on May 12, 1987, a surgical team painstakingly removed my diseased liver and replaced it with a three-pound organ that only hours before had kept alive another person somewhere in the country, a man or woman whose name I will never know. I was given a second chance at life, a priceless gift that the emerging science of transplantation now offers to thousands who otherwise would die from failure of their internal organs. Like a modern Lazarus, each day I look in wonder at the freshness of God’s creation, seeing simple and beautiful things I never noticed before. Frank Maier EDITOR’S NOTE: Frank Maier was the 95th liver transplant recipient at Mayo Clinic. As Chicago bureau chief for Newsweek magazine, he wrote about his experience in a September 12, 1988, cover story. Now retired, Maier is writing a book about his illness and transplant. Sweet Reprieve will be published later this year by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. R&D Magazine, November 1990 “

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-07, A WEDDING,”Congratulations and best wishes to Tim Sheehan, Manufacturing, and Chris Stran, Printed Circuits, who were married February 23 at Sacred Heart Church. CRAYCHIPS~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn “

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-28, JUST MARRIED,Congratulations and best wishes to Joel Ficke of Development and Ronda Dehnke of the Runkel Building who were married March 22.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-28, SALUTE TO THE TROOPS,”A welcoming home parade will be held in Chippewa Falls on May 18. There will be 37 veterans’ units, 25 high school bands, a military flyover, and Governor Thompson. The organizers would like a marching contingent representing Cray Research. What a real fun-type of volunteering! Get a group together and call Karen Johnson, 726-9560, for suggestions and instructions. You could all wear Cray jackets or sweatshirts.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-02, ARRIVAL OF ALI,”Jeff Paulson, Mendota, and his wife Barb have a new baby girl, Alison Shelley, born April 18. Congratulations!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-09, EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION,”The seventh annual recognition banquet for honor students–seniors–of the Greater Eau Claire Area was held at the Ray Wachs Civic Center on April 30. Gary Becker and Bill Schrieber represented Cray Research at this important event which included the parents and also honored outstanding teachers. In Chippewa Falls it was the sixth annual Excellence in Education Banquet, held at the Fill-Inn Station on May 1 for the top 5 percent of the graduating seniors of McDonell and Chippewa Falls High Schools. Del Diffendorfer of Systems on Lowater was on hand to congratulate these honor students, their parents, and most influential teachers on behalf of the Company. Cray Research is a sponsor of both celebrations.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-16, LITTLE SHAVER,”Congratulations to Maryjo Zwiefelhofer, Printed Circuits, and her husband Glen, proud parents of a baby boy, Cory Louis, born on May 7.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-30, THE SOUND OF BIRDS,”We hear them everywhere now: the greepgreep-greep and whistle of the great crested flycatcher, delightful little songs of warblers and indigo buntings, monotonous repetitiveness of the red-eyed vireo, and repetitive but very melodious outpouring of the brown thrasher. I haven’t seen any of these desirable neighbors. I have to keep my eyes on the road while driving, and am too afraid of ticks to take walkabouts as in the past. One can’t miss the cardinals and orioles though, not their beautiful colors nor their distinctive, imperative, sometimes wheedling, mating calls. On Friday I did catch catbirds with nesting material in beak. On Monday a heavenly bluebird. The flickers are using the same nest hole in the birds’ favorite dead tree. They were sittin’ but now it appears as if they’re feedin’. Both parents are around, so they must share the chores. CRAY CHIPS~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-06, OUR NEW BABY,”Jeanine Birch and Jane Cyr of Riverside Project were strolling down Ye Old Skunk Trail last week, near the Runkel Building, when they spied a little fawn. It wobbled into the woods. It was still there the next day, apparently motherless. Cathy Vajgrt called Bill Faherty of Parks & Rec for advice. He sent Al Heyde right out, and here he is with what he guessed was a 3-day-old baby. 1991 JUNE 6 The little fella is at the Park now, being fed on condensed milk. Bill said they had to have the vet out, and the very young fawn is on medication–doing pretty good. But they don’t know what to call him–assuming it’s a he. What shall the new baby be named? Help!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-13, NATIONAL MATHCOUNTS,”The Cray Research Foundation has renewed for three more years its sponsorship of this program encouraging participation of 7th and 8th graders in math for fun and future. The eighth annual National MATHCOUNTS competition was held May 3-4 at the Sheraton Washington, attended by four-member teams from every state, the Department of Defense, the State Department, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands–winners at the state level–plus coaches, parents, officials, Bill Linder-Scholer, and me. The No.1 Mathlete in the nation is Jonathan Weinstein of Massachusetts, an 8th grader. Second place was won by Mathew Crawford of Alabama, 8th grade; Mathew also won second place last year when he was in 7th grade. Third place went to Christopher Chang, New Jersey, a 7th grader, and winner also of the Masters Round. The emphasis, however, is on teamwork rather than individual performance. Alabama’s was the national winning team. Prizes awarded were college scholarships, computers, and trips to Space Camp. The Wisconsin team did well, placing 8th: David Ellsworth and Paul Jeray of Green Bay, Josh Edelman of Madison, and Matt Petering of Milwaukee. Larry Slamann of Milwaukee was their coach. You will note a lack of representation from our part of the state. That’s the problem that needs attention. We are very fortunate in having the state chairman here, Stan Fredrickson of Eau Claire. The money investment in getting the program started in local schools is minimal. What is needed are people to help teachers in coaching, to work with kids on the materials provided. With all our talented engineering math-type employees, I know there are some who would get a lot of satisfaction from participating. Everyone who’s tried it seems to like it! The Minnesota team just missed making the top ten. They were 11th, and included Craig Shields of Richf.ield, Kuan-Jei Wu of Mankato, Randall Harp of Minneapolis, and Michael Korn of St. Paul. More girls need to be encouraged to participate in MATHCOUNTS. The winning team, Alabama, did include one girl, and two of the four on the Alaska, Rhode Island, and Virgin Islands teams were girls. But, overall, only about 20 percent of the 224 kids at the National MATHOOUNTS were girls. The one scoring highest in the individual competition to win the AAUW scholarship was Johanna Miller of Pennsylvania. Cray Research hosted a reception for our joint sponsors and representatives of other supporting organizations, state coordinators, coaches, and parents, which was enjoyed by all. To illustrate the caliber of people involved in the progrrun: I was chatting with the coach from Arkansas. He had discovered three of his team members were violinists, so he arranged to take them all to hear a symphony concert at Kennedy Center one evening. At the gala Awards Banquet (dessert: crushed Oreo ice crerun banbe on a chocolate cake socle (?) with chocolate sauce), Millie Johnson of Western Washington University gave a physics demonstration using soap bubbles. It was fascinating and fun.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-20, THE WEDDING SEASON,”Congratulations to Joe Tschumperlin and Chris Jarvis of Printed Circuits who were married May 25. Best wishes to Al Andersen of Engineering who was married to Carla Peterson June 1. (AI was literally her “”knight in shining armor”” when he proposed; they had met on the set of “”Pirates of Penzance.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-27, ANNOUNCING A WEDDING,Best wishes to Donna Yeager of P.C. Development who was married to Chris Elstran on May 18.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-06-27, MARK TWAIN ON COOKING,”””I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on a hearth on a winter’s evening,”” he wrote in his sixties, “”and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream.”” And of the foods that came out of that farm kitchen, from roast pig to hot com pone, he wrote in his autobiography, “”It makes me cry to think of them.”” In a more philosophic vein, he admitted that “”Tastes are made, not born;”” and that, while he might glorify hisfavorites until he was tired, the Scotchman “”would shake his head and say ‘where’s your haggis?’ and the Fijian would sigh and CRAY CHIPS -iA pu.bwhed by Edna. Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-03, THE FIVE-YEAR VETERANS,”One hundred nineteen persons completed five years with the Company: Duane Barker, Lore’ Barum, Colleen Bauer, Holly Belger, Monte Berg, Tammy Blaser, Brian Bleed, Michelle Bleuer, Jeffrey Bloom, Walter Boese, Brian Bogstad, Randy Breitenfeldt, Lawrence Briggs, Jo Ann Burrows, Debra Butterfield, Debra Cimfl, Susan Christianson, Kathy Dahlberg, Gary Davidson, Wanda Ducommun, June Erickson, Mark Erickson, Mary Erickson, Douglas Etlicher, Rosemary Faschingbauer, Craig Gardner, Beth Geissler, Sheila Geissler, Donna Gonyer, Joseph Gorman, Dawn Graese, Wanda Groskreutz, Patti Haag, Joyce Harelstad, Kimberly Haynie, Craig Hebrink, Albert Helland, Brian Hlllert, William Howard, Thomas Jackson, Jim Jacobs, David Jansen, Janine Jansen, Melvin Jensen, Anita Jenson, Nancy Jergenson, Orreen Jeska, Diane Johnvin, Joseph Kiewit, Kevin Knecht, Jeff Knopps, Douglas Koepke, Kathy Kreutzfeldt, Gary Kroening, Dawn Kuehn, Mary Kutchera, Dale Le Duc, Gloria Lee, Chris Lindblad, Max Logan, Richard Lough, Roger Lutz, Laraine MacKenzie, Laurel Mc-Callum, Neil Martin, Terry Mehlberg, Wendy Meister, Tom Menard, Terry Merth, Jeannine Morajda, Timothy Morissette, Joan Murray, Phil Normand, Gerald Olson, Joe Ousley, Debra Peterson, Deborah Plahn, Renay Poirier, Brad Polzin, Norman Postell, John Rafferty, Caleb Rhodes, Ann Rieck, Ronald Rieder, Julie Rieper, Scott Robinson, Wayne Rosbacka, Daniel Rosenbrook, Eileen Rowell, Gary Rowin, Diane Sather, Valerie Schaar, Theresa Scheil, Jeff Schweiner, Gloria Scribner, Sandra Seidlitz, Pamela Semisch, Barbara Shellito, Gerald Sinclair, Daniel Sires, Ricky Slack, Gary Spaeth, Lauri Stefczak, Cynthia Stauffer, Marcia Staves, Doreen Tande, Cindy Traynor, Leslie Trecartin, Gloria Trott, Gerard Uchytil, Lori Uchytil, Cathy Vajgrt, Deborah Violet, Thomas Warnberg, Jean Weisser, Julie Werlein, James Whealon, Waverly Windus, and Michael Wooldridge.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-07-26, USA TODAY  JULY 18,”LYME’S LEGACY: Untreated children who develop Lyme disease from the bite of an infected tick may continue to suffer eye inflammation, joint pain and other problems for years, says a New England Journal of Medicine study. “”We were surprised that nearly one-third of the child, en in the study still had symptoms some 10 to 13 yems after they had been initially infected,”” said researchers led by Dr. Allen C. Steere, a rheumatologist at the New England Medical Center. Researchers studied 46 children infected in the late 1970s, before doctors discovered that antibiotic treatments could help cure the disease. “”We”’v’e come a long way, eh, Professor?”” CRAY CHIPS ~ pub~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-01, SINGLE PARENT CENTER,”An outreach to single parent families in Eau Claire and the surrounding area is located at Grace Lutheran Church, 821 Oxford Avenue, with office hours 8:30-4:30 Monday-Thursday. Judy Murphy, coordinator, leads Monday and Thursday evening support group meetings, 6: 30-8, during which free child care is provided. Monthly workshops or social activities provide single parent families with information and a chance to socialize. The Center is especially active during the winter months, arranging Thanksgiving and Christmas banquets, as holidays can be stressful. Children of parents who are attending support group meetings may participate in a cross-generational progrrum with elderly residents of the Syverson Lutheran Home. Single parents who are experiencing personal problems are welcome to come in for counseling or referral to an appropriate agency. If you know of someone who could use these services, call Judy ~~hy at 834-9772.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, BABY BOYS,”Carole and Jon Turner (Development) became parents of Evan Blake on July 17. A son, Kyle James, was born to Brenda, Riverside Systems, and Tim Gottfredsen, Riverside Project, on July 30. Congratulations, All! CRAYCHIPS~ pubti~hedby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-08, NEW EMPLOYEE,”A welcome to Vince Pugnier, recent addition to Hardware Publications.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-15, CHILD CARE HELP,”Two workshops designed to assist parents in their search for quality child care and to introduce employees to the local (Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls area) Child Care Resource and Referral Services will be held on Wednesday, August 21, at 12 noon and 3 pm in Manufacturing training room 1. You are welcome to attend either session, and no advance registration is necessary. The sessions will last from one-half to an hour depending on the amount of discussion and questions. For more information, contact Jane Knecht, extension 4776; Jerilyn Gunderson, 2140; or Dale Schimmel, 1492.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-15, YOU SHOULD KNOW STEVE NELSON,”Steve Nelson, Vice President of Technology, has his office in Development, but he started out at the Hallie Lab and observed his fifteen-year anniver- sary with Cray Research on August 10. This long career with the Company has also been exceedingly varied. In the beginning, in 1976, Steve worked with Seymour and Harry Runkel on the CRAY-2, the very initial work. He says, “”To sell CRAY-l’s we had to talk to prospective customers about CRAY-2‘s–which hasn’t changed; people want to see what is beyond.”” Steve designed the first DRAM memory for the1/0subsystem buffer memory. This design later evolved into the SSD. He contributed logic design pieces and a lot of CAD tools for the A-processor, which became the lOS. Seymour credits Steve with introducing him to personal computers. Steve bought the first “”Superbrain,”” an early PC, and wrote software for it. At one time the Spickler Building was his workplace. Subsequently, in 1982, Steve assumed responsibility for gallium arsenide research and development as director of the Advanced Research Project in what is now the P.C. Development building. “”We built the IC fabrication line for gallium arsenide and GaAs circuits.”” Steve joined the last stages of the CRAY Y-MP effort, working on the RAM-on-Array circuit. “”I then worked with Les to define the C-90 project,”” our CRAY Y-MP16 supercomputer. Last fall Steve was happy to assume leadership of the massively parallel processing project. Minnesota is Steve’s native state. He serves on the boards of the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center and the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth. He is very proud of his pretty blond wife, Sue, who has just graduated from UW-Eau Claire, where she gave the student commencement address; his son, Scott, a student at UC-Berkeley; and his daughter, Noel, a senior at Memorial High. When I visited him last Friday, Steve was fresh from a meeting with General Harrison (hmmm–wonder what General Harrison was about . . . wonder how many “”m’ sIt in hmmmm).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-12, BEST· WISHES,”To Tracie Burnosky of Riverside Systems and her new husband, Scott Wurtz, who were married August 10.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-12, DEATH OF ONE OF OUR OWN,”It is sad to report that Keith Schrader passed away last weekend. The funeral was on Tuesday. Keith didn’t make it to his ten-year anniversary with Cray Research, which would have been October 19. Riverside Project was his last posting. He died of cancer, which he had fought for over a year.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-19, JUST ~.fARRIEDS,”Congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Wood (Sherri Pittman of Engineering) on their marriage August 7; to Les Lisowski of the Machining Center and his bride, Sharie Steinmetz, who were wed August 31; and to Debbie Hanson, Engineering, and Mark Erickson, HREB, who were married September 7.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-09-26, IT’S A BOY,”Congratulations to the proud parents of Ju~ ,’in Jerome, who was born on Septem~er 9 to Chris Jakubowicz of Mechanical Assembly and her husband, Jerry.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-03, FIFTEEN AND GOING VERY STRONG,”Congratulations to these fifteen-year veterans: John Carlson, August 1; Steve Nelson, August 10; Don Whiting, August 16; Irene Qualters, August 23; and Mike Dickey, September 1.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-17, COLUMBUS DAY WEDDING,”Best wishes to Deanna Dowdle of P.C. Development and John Suilmann, ELS, who were married October 12.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-17, KINSHIP NEEDS VOLUNTEERS,”Seventy children have come to Kinship of Chippewa County in need of an adult friend. Forty are still in need. They need YOU. Being a Kinship volunteer is challenging, rewarding, and fun. Responsible and caring adults are paired with Kinskids to share activities. Brighten the life of a child and enrich your own. It’s a good investment. Just a little of your time can give these kids some encouragement, some joy in their lives. Share your concern, talents, and interests. Call 723-0881 for more information on how to become a Kinship volunteer.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, PARTNERSHIPS,”Steve Lasure of the Runkel Building represented Cray Research in our sponsorship of Eau Claire School District math contests in grades 4, 5, and 6 this spring. Nineteen elementary schools participated in the tournament held at DeLong Junior High, with approximately 600 attendees. Team winners were, first place, Sam Davey School; second, Cleghorn; and third, Arlington. Among the individual winners was Brendon Nacewicz, 5th grade, Mt. Washington, son of Mark Nacewicz of Product Support.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-15, CRAY IN THE CLASSROOM,”Southview School requested someone give a brief presentation to the fourth grade for Career Awareness Month. Terry McDougall of the Runkel Building spoke to the group on May 4, showing them a film and some P.C. boards and passing out souvenir (scrap) chips. He enjoyed the kids and they enjoyed him–a good link in our educational partnerships.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20,” “”””””BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS”””””””,”””New approaches are making them safer than ever,”” says the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. “”Our nation’s blood supply is safer than at any time in the past. “” … many medical centers have expanded their use of autologous blood donations. You may donate blood autologously (to yourself) in two ways: Preoperative — If you are scheduled for major elective surgery, you may have your blood drawn and stored for up to six weeks before your operation. Intraoperative — In the past, blood lost during surgery was discarded. Today, blood you lose can be collected, washed and transfused. “”Autologous blood donation is not possible in all cases. • . . remember that receiving blood from a blood bank runs little risk–and could save your life.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-20, RETURN ON INVESTMENT,”The Cray Research Foundation as part of its in-depth educational advancement program granted six scholarships to students in Wisconsin and Minnesota through the National Society of Professional Engineers. A news item from the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram of June 27 reports one of our scholarship winners received a national award at the American Society of Engineering Education Convention in Lincoln, Nebraska, for an aluminum-can crushing machine. William Verkuilen of Thorp is a student at Marquette University.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-27, AN INVITATION FROM THE SCHOOLS,”””The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District is sponsoring a school-coomunity workshop on Wednesday, August 16. . . . We would be most pleased and honored if employees fran Cray would be interested in attending.”” The place is the Middle School, wi th parents, faculty, and other community members participating. UNDERACHIEVEMENT SYNDROME: CAUSES AND CURES 8: 30-10: 45 am Michael M. Cornale, Asst. Director, Family AchievEment Clinic, Oconamwac DISCIPLINE AND THE DIFFICULT CHIlD 11-12:30 Mary !.Du Decker, Specialist lDMEWORK: IDW YOU CAN HELP! 1: 30-3 Ruth Harris, Northwest Reading Clinic WHAT 00 YOU KN(M AOOur AIDS? 1:30-3 Sally Swenson, R.N., School Nurse”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-27, CRAY ACADEMY 1989,”A very important enterprise this week and next is the second Cray Academy, a summer program for 850 teachers of math, science, and technology in kindergarten through high school from allover northwestern Wisconsin. The Cray Research Foundation funds this endeavor to improve the teaching of these vital subjects. The program began on Monday at 8 O’clock at the Eau Claire Civic Center with registration, a welcome, and introductions. The keynote speakers were to be Dr. Herbert Grover, State Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, and Les Davis, our Executive Vice President. Group discussions to follow, the groups comprising a number of teachers, Cray representatives and others from industry, to communicate the needs of industry. The plan for next week is similar, with Art Harkins of the University of Minnesota (Education and Anthropology) and Dr. M. James Bensen, Dean of Technology and Industry, University of Wisconsin-Stout, being the keynoters. The real business of the Academy is the presentation of 35 hands-on workshops ranging from “”How to Grow Science in Kids”” to “”Artificial Intelligence,”” presented by educators from Colorado, New Jersey, Oregon, Idaho, Indiana, California, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The workshops are held at the UW-Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley Technical College. Included in the offerings are tours of other industry partners: Amoco, Eau Claire Press, Ayres Associates, Darley Pump, Extrusion Dies, Jim Falls Hydroelectric, Hubbard Scientific, Leinenkugel’s, Mason’s, Lee Markquart, Phillips Plastics, Phoenix Steel, Pope & Talbot, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Spectrum, Uniroyal, Wisconsin Bell, and WEAU-TV. Groups of twenty teachers will be touring several Cray Research facilities on the two Wednesdays of the Academy.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-03, NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS,”These are some excerpts from the May-June 1989 issue of ACCESS, newsletter of the NCSA at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From an article enti tIed, “”Cray R&D grant program presentations,”” by Mary Hoffman: “”NCSA recipients of the 1988 Cray user research and development grants met at NCSA on March 16 to present summaries of their research projects. Representatives from. Cray Research Inc. included Kelly Altman, account manager; Tom Kanp, region general manager; J 1m Padian, region marketing support manager; and Eric Pitcher, director of University programs. “”About the program. NCSA Research Scientist Mike Norman opened the meeting with a sumnary of the goals and scope of the program. The Cray Research and Developnent Grant Program encourages R&D projects which further the commercial or academic applications of Cray supercomputer systems by (1) significantly and uniquely increasing scientific, engineering, or computer system knowledge; or (2) developing software and/or algorithmic techniques for supercomputer architectures, thereby providing efficient or ~roved programming solutions to real-world problems. Cray grants have been awarded in the following disciplines: health sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematical and computational sciences, engineering, materials science, and microelectronics. II”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-03, REMINDER,”The General Employee Meeting is next Thursday, August 10, at the Middle School. Hope to see you there! 1989 AUGUST 3″

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-17, CRAY GAMES DATE CHANGE,”””Enough yelling–the date of the Cray Games has been changed to Saturday, September 16, at Baldwin High School. Now you can go to both Clear Water Days and the Cray Games. Registration for the events is due by September 1. Cray employees, spouses, kids and significant others can compete in the Cray Games. The softball events are almost full and volleyball is filling fast so enter early. ‘For more information contact Dennis Guldan, extension 5689.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-24, 1989 BUSINESS WORLD,”Each summer The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Foundation offers week-long sessions at two Wisconsin colleges for high school students to learn about the practical side of business. This year Dave Kiefer of the Runkel Building fulfilled the request to Cray Research for a speaker on “”Research & Developnent.”” He gave his presentation twice at the Business World program at Lawrence University in Appleton the week of July 24. “”It went very well,”” said Dave. Between 350 and 375 students were in attendance. Each year Cray Research pays the cost of sending one or two kids fram Chippewa Falls to Business World. The other campus imvolved is St. Norbert College in De Pere.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-24, C PROGRAMMING OFFERING,”C programming (non-credit) will be offered at the CVTC, Chippewa Falls, beginning September 7 and ending December 21, 5 to 8 pm; tuition $45.90; book $22.80. Understanding of basic canputer tenninology is necessary. The course is designed for technical people, and experience programming in another language would be helpful. Call Juli, 2144. WINNERS OF THE 1989 CRAY OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT       First Place    Second Place    Third Place   

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, SCHOOL’S ON,”Mel Ott, Chippewa Falls Community Support Officer, asks our cooperation and patience with school buses and drivers. It can be frustrating to have to wait for a bus to pick up or. drop off children, but we must keep our priorities straight. The only thing more important than our work is our kids. The laws designed to protect our children say motorists are required to stop at least 20 feet from the front or rear of a bus that has stopped and activated its red flashing lights. Drivers must remain stopped until the bus starts to move or turns off its flashing red lights.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, THE CRAY ACADEMIES,”The Cray Academy for northwestern Wisconsin teachers held late July-early August received the highest marks. Faculty of UW-Eau Claire and the C.V. Technical College praised the project and are eager to continue their work with it. All of the teachers who applied had the opportunity to participate, and most of the approximately 800 were very pleased with the experience. Thirty to forty Cray Research employees took part each week in the industryeducation discussion groups. An impartial jury rated Les the best keynoter. Eight tours of Cray Research facilities were offered, to Manufacturing, the Harry Runkel Building, and Riverside Systems. Ramona Goettl and Mary Davis served as tour guides. Conducting and instructing the groups within the buildings were Fred Wyss, Tom Menard, Diane Schick, Gerry Schweitzer, Hank Erickson, and Jerry Fellenz at Manufacturing; Doug Schemenauer and Gene Geissler in RIVSYS; and Terry McDougall and Steve Lasure in HREB. An innovation this year is the Cray Leadership Academy, to acquaint administrators of the goals of the teacher Academy and secure their active support in effecting changes to improve mathematics, science and technology education. Eight school districts are participating in eight sessions during the year.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-09-28, THE CRAY RESEARCH AWARDS FOR LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION,The recipients of the awards have been announced. They were nominated by 150 of their co-workers–all employees ‘were urged to make nominations of individuals or teams- and then selected by a committee representative of all parts of the Company. The winners will be recognized by Company executives and officers at a dinner at the Hotel Sofitel this evening … Each will receive a Cray Research stock grant and a commemorative crystal sculpture. Chippewa Operations congratulates most heartily all 36 winners but particularly our Wisconsin people:

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-05, THE CRAY RESEARCH COMMUNITY SUPPORT CAMPAIGN,”It has reached only its half-way point to the goal of giving in the United Way/Combined Health Appeal drive, with just a short time left to participate in the Campaign. If you haven’t turned in your donation form, please do–now. The Charitable Contributions Committee thanks all employees who purchased raffle tickets for the Chippewa United Way drive. Congratulations to the grand prize winner, Irene Samens, of Manufacturing. Sixty-six prizes were given out. The total proceeds earned for the Chippewa Area from the raffle was $1342.00. Many thanks!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-26, WEPI,”The Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiatives arm of the Cray Research Foundation Grants to Education Committee met on October 10 in the educational building on Ridgewood Drive. Present were Bill Linder-Scholer, Julie Stafford, Steve Hogseth, Joanne Whiterabbit, Dave Frasch, Marv Bausman, and Edna Bunn. First order of business was an official photograph. The very successful two-day session of the Cray Leadership Academy in Holcombe was reported on. This is the adjunct to the teacher academy to encourage active participation of superintendents and principals with their instructors in improving and integrating the teaching of math, science, and technology for today and tomorrow. The school districts of Bloomer, Cameron, Colfax, Chippewa public and parochial, Eau Claire public and parochial, and Siren were represented (including a couple of school board members) plus Carl Wehman, Marv Bausman, Steve Hogseth, and Julie Stafford representing Cray Research. The present first cycle of the Leadership Academy runs through April. The response (“”invaluable,”” said some) has been so very positive, a second cycle with different school districts participating will begin in January. Discussion of priorities ensued in light of reduced budgets. Lunch was enjoyed with Audrey Brainard of Ohio and the local teachers to whom she was presenting her SMURF (Science Made Understandable, Relevant, and Fun) program. The highest praise continues to accrue to the Chippewa Area Catholic Schools (CACS) for the remarkable program they have evolved with the help of the Cray Research Foundation and numerous parent volunteers.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-11-23, HUNTSVILLE DISASTER,”The loss of lives, numerous injuries, and terrible destruction caused by the tornadoes in Huntsville made us anxious about our people there. Last Thursday morning I called the Huntsville Sales Office, and LurIa Harris reported “”all the sites are fine, and everybody that works for Cray is all right.”” We have three installations in the area: LurIa said she can see the Alabama Supercomputer Center, where Serial 428 CRAY X-MP has been in operation for the past two years. The Army Strategic Defense Command Simulation Center, home of Serial 330 CRAY X-MP, is close by; and not too many miles away is NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where a four-processor CRAY X-MP system is installed. Our Bill Wilkinson’s little daughter, Jessie, age 6!, attended the grade school that was destroyed. She was in the group of children still in the building in an extended day program. Two women in charge herded the thirty kids into a small area beneath a stairwell, and all were safe. (There were 200 youngsters at the famous Space Camp, all of whom were OK, too.)”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-12-07, TO SUNNY CALIFORNIA,”The San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, has received a CRAY Y-MP8 system, Serial 1026. Our news release of June 12 announced the purchase order from General Atomics, which operates the Center for the National Science Foundation: “”The system will be used for scientific computing in areas including computational chemistry, high-performance graphics, physics, and electrical engineering. SDSC also is implementing a worldclass scientific visualization center as an adjunct to the CRAY Y-MP system.!!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-04, UPDATE ON TAX WITHHOLDING FOR TUITION REIMBURSEMENT PAYMENTS,”Late in 1989 President Bush signed a bill extending Section 127 of the Internal Revenue Code through September 30, 1990. This means that any Tuition Reimbursement paid between now and September 30 is excludable from your income for federal purposes. Federal and FICA taxes will not be withheld. Payments for classes that do not meet all three criteria on the back of the reimbursement form are still subject to Wisconsin state withholding. As in the past, payments for graduate level courses not related to your current job remain taxable for federal and state purposes. The $5250 cap also remains; payments beyond that limit will be treated as taxable income. An additional note regarding 1988 Wisconsin taxes. If you included tuition reimbursement payments in your ’88 income for Wisconsin, a form is available for claiming a refund of taxes paid on that amount. (You are probably eligible for a refund only if you filed Schedule I with your return, since the amount was not included on your ’88 earnings statement.) If you have questions on any of the foregoing, call Del Diffendorfer, 4719.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-25, AND DON’T FORGET THE GIRL SCOUTS,”Besides cookie sales, the troop at the Pedersen School in Altoona is collecting plastic bottles and containers. Remove all labels and deliver to the Pedersen School, where they will be picked up on February 3, 10 am to noon.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-01-25, I LOVE TO TRAVEL,”In late summer, for the very first time, I visited Yellowstone National Park. Although my husband was a Wyomingite and we were as near as Cody, he declined to take me to our premier National Park–too many people, he said. (We did go to Glacier, which was an eye-thrilling experience.) Yellowstone was beautiful, and huge (roan for lots of people). One could spend weeks and roonths there in order to see everything. Not having a previous impression for canpar i son , I could not see that the raging fires of the previous StmIner, that stmner of drought everywhere, had done pennanent damage. The trees will grow again. New growth in grasses and other ground cover was rampant. The flowers were unbelievable. Never before had I seen fields of blue lupin; daisy types–brown-eyed susans and solid gold; and masses of beautiful rose-colored fireweed. Fireweed is an ugly name; lovely flowers shouldn’t be called weeds. The other Mrs. Bunn, my sister-in-law Dorothy, had signed us up for a three-day course in “”Mudpots, Geysers, and Hot Springs.”” Wi th a professional on a teaching assigrunent, we were able to leave the safety of the boardwalks and go out among the puddles–with dire warnings of terrible burns fran hot splashes. Dr. Duncan Foley, at dinner in the Old Faithful Inn the first evening, asked me with a smirk if Leinenkugel’s was as good as ever. Although fran Washington State, he had spent t~ at school in Wisconsin–a good instructor. It was I who had insisted we stay at the Inn, one of the musts on a visit to Yellowstone. It is such a famous great old timber lodge, not fancy, not expensive, no phones- dangling unshaded light bulbs and showers down the hall- a fun place. The fires came close to the Inn, and visitors were evacuated. Forty miles away, in the Sunlight Basin where Dorothy’s family has their “”cabin”” (royal hunting lodge), residents also had to leave their property. The waterfalls were beautiful. I wasn’t crazy about the mudpots, or even the hot springs–interesting, yes, but not pretty. The geysers, of course, were spectacular; not surprisingly, my favorite was “”Riverside.”” Dorothy wasn’t able to find me a bear, but elk, rooose, bison, and swans were quite acceptable. In the early 1900s, it was feared the trumpeter swan would became extinct in the United States. Fewer than a hundred were counted. Now there are nearly a thousand. CRAYCHIPS~ pu~h~dby Edna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-15, GOODBY BOB,”A number of Chippewa people gathered at the Flame on Wednesday of last week for a farewell dinner honoring Bob Gaertner. Bob is too young to retire; he just craves variety in his life’s work. He started out as a teacher; has been with Cray Research for seven years–two more than originally allotted to this vocation. Bob plans to set up a small office in public relations in Minneapolis, but the immediate project is a tour of duty in Guatemala, where he and his charming wife, Barb, will do volunteer work in a clinic.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, THE FIRST AND BEST,”In grade school, I didn’t believe anything we were taught about George Washington. The wooden teeth were as unlikely as the cherry tree bit. Now, with knowledge of the record of his character and achievements, I am prepared to believe almost anything about this noble man. George Washington was born 258 years ago today in Virginia, and was educated by private tutors. He was a surveyor and a planter before becoming Commander in Chief of the First Continental Army and the First President of the United States. That is the title he chose, though there were those who would have made him a king. With a lesser person, the great experiment might have failed. President Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789. He had to borrow lOOney for the cost of the trip fran Mount Vernon. The population of the United States was est:imated at 3,700,000 at the time. This flag of 1789 excludes Rhode Island, which did not ratify the Constitution until 1790. The states of Vennont, Kentucky, and Tennessee were admitted during Washington’s two terms of office. In 1790 Philadelphia was chosen the temporary Capital. The only president not to live in the White House, President Washington selected the site and approved the design by James Hoban, winner of the open architectural canpetition and $500. What Washington called the “”President I s House”” in the “”Federal City”” was not to be ready for occupancy until 1800. FranCONSTITUTIONquarterly, Fall/1988: “”All the electors in the first elections–1789 and 1792–agreed that George Washington was the only person for the presidency ••.. Among Washington’s great accomplishments were nurturing into being the beginnings of a cabinet system and helping to develop a strong and independent judiciary that would soon define and quantify the loose frrunework of the Constitution’s wording. He was able to do so because he was perceived as incorruptible and above the battle. . • • Such disinterested high-mindedness was never absolutely the case after Washington. II”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-22, WEPI,”A meeting of the Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiatives arm of the Cray Foundation was held last Wednesday at the Pupil Service Center with Bill Linder-Scholer, Julie Stafford, Steve Hogseth, Del Diffendorfer, Carl Wehman, Marv Bausman, and Edna Bunn attending. The Cray Leadership Academy is flourishing and expanding. All school administrators who have had any contact with this new program are enthusiastic about it. On January 31 the session at the Civic Center included the participation of twelve new school teams comprising superintendents, principals, and teachers. An exciting event upcoming will be a full day, March 8, at Stillson School devoted to interaction of the kids with “”real live”” scientists and engineers. Steve Hogseth is the leader in this timely endeavor involving many of our people. The evening program will be even better, when the pupils bring their parents back to school for a potpourri of scientific demonstrations. Not specifically in connection with National Engineers Week, but certainly apropos, are the one-hour presentations several of our employees are making at UW-Stout. Ron Curtis arranged the appearances of John Lien on February 14, Terry McDougall on February 21, and Al Rivers on February 28. Because our educational partnerships are so important, we would like to know who all our people are that speak before school groups, etc. Just give me a little note at Riverside Project.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-01, CROSSROADS,”This is a six-week program at UW-Eau Claire for “”adults in transition.”” The dates are March 13, 20, and 27; April 3, 10, and 17; from 6-8 pm. CROSS-ROADS includes lectures, assignments, in-class discussion, and exercises that help participants chart their future. If you are considering a change such as returning to school, a new job or career, starting a business, etc., CROSSROADS can help you plot a strategy, weigh the risks, and make decisions. The cost is $50. To register or for more information, call the Adult Opportunity Office, 836-3259.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-01, X-RAYS AND PREGNANCY,”Are common diagnostic X-ray procedures harmful to an unborn baby? The Mayo Clinic Health Letter for February says: lilt is true that extremely high levels of radiation from X-rays can be harmful to an unborn child. But the radiation exposure that a fetus receives from most standard X-ray procedures is not significant enough to cause birth defects or other harm. “”Some people believe that a fetus is exposed to the same amount of radiation from an X-ray procedure as the mother. However, this is a misconception … Each year, the average U.S. citizen is exposed to about 300 mR [milliroentgen] (equivalent to about 12 standard chest X-rays) from our living environment. To illustrate the difference in the amounts of radiation a mother-tobe receives from an X-ray procedure as opposed to what her fetus receives, here is an example: If you are pregnant and you have a standard chest X-ray taken, the exposure to your skin is about 20 mR. Of this exposure level, your fetus receives only 0.03 mR–a barely measureable amount. “” . it is the consensus of radiation physicists and geneticists that only radiation doses of 10,000 mR or greater may cause birth defects …• some CT scans and angiography approach this level. The only type of cancer believed to be associated with X-ray exposure to the fetus is leukemia, a disease characterized by the cancerous growth of blood cells. Again, however, the risk is exceedingly small if the dose does not exceed 10,000 mR. “” … pregnant women should avoid multiple abdominal or pelvic X-rays. This is because of risk of future development of malignant disease to the fetus, and genetic risks to the offspring of the fetus.”” 1am onvae~on ~ wee~. “”Charitable Contributions Committee Quarterly Newsletter”” No.1 March 1, 1990 “”Working together to makeabettercommunity.”” No, it’s not the new computer corporation that just started in Colorado. The CCC is Cray Research, Inc.’s, own Charitable Contributions Committee. This group is made up of Cray (Chippewa Falls) employees who volunteer their time and efforts to organize and complete an annual food drive, an annual blood drive, a volunteerism fair, and a community support campaign made up of the United Way and Combined Health Appeal. The committee also helps in any way possible with other community affairs and is involved with the “”Cray Match””. The purpose of the Charitable Contributions Committee (CCC) is to support and promote employee volunteerism and employee giving to worthy charitable organizations. Generally speaking, there is a CCC representative in each building. They are as follows: Lynette Benzschawel and Kathy Eisold, TOPS; Mona Hoch and Ronda Dehnke, DEV; Lois Goettl, RS; Don Hable, Terry McDougall and Dan Shuda, HREB; Dawn Hamilton and Kris Ward, ENG; Ben Holzem, MS, Tracy James, PS; Lisa Lindner, PC; Sandy McFadden, STCO; and Barb Walters, MFG. : : 、 and the comments of the comments of the comments of the comments of the contraction of the contribution of the contribution of the contribution of the contribution of the con ,”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-22, STILLSON V.I.S.I.T. PROGRAM,”On March 15, Cray Research, the Wisconsin Elanentary Science Teachers, and the Stillson PTO sponsored a progrwm to promote science education for Stillson’s children (grades K through 5). Throughout the day, scientists presented “”hands on”” programs to help the students gain an appreciation for science in the real world. During the evening, the kids brought their parents back to school to experience nearly 30 scientific activities and demonstrations which provided direct interaction with participating scientists and engineers. While Cray Research helped provide financial support for this event, the program’s REAL success was largely due to the volunteer efforts of 20 Cray engineers and scientists. The following anployees provided their t:ime and talents to help broaden young minds: Chris Anderson, Rick Austin, Brad Bartilson, Tan Chojnacki, Ron Curtis, Chuck Fuller, Steve Gunderson, Steve Hogseth, Ruth Holliday, Tan Hotle, Terry Jacobson, Steve Lasure, John Lien, Jim Mandelert, Dave Morton, Pete Peloquin, Brad Sni th, Greg Thorson, Mark Vogel, and Jeff Wingad. TIle children were absolutely thrilled with the day! On behalf of these kids, THANKS to all our volunteers. (I think our Cray participants had as much fun as they!) Any Cray “”scientist”” who would like to becane involved with science education is invited to do so. The likelihood of similar (but probably less formal) programs evolving for other schools is good. But to help with future requests, we need a larger volunteer pool. Please talk with any of the aoove participants and I’m sure they will offer their encouragement. If you are interested, contact one of the manbers of Cray Foundation’s Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiatives (WEPI manbers include Marv Bausnan, Edna Bunn, Del Diffendorfer, Dave Frasch, Bill Linder-Scholer, Steve Hogseth, Julie Stafford, and Carl Wehman) • With a strong volunteer base, we can cover many schools without having individual “”burnout. “” (Note: 3M Canpany has over 400 scientists in their volunteer base for a similar program.) You’re invited to give it a try!! STEVE HOGSETH”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, RICE LAKE HAPPENING,”An Open House was held on Sunday, February 25, to dedicate the Hilltop Elementary School Addition and the Mobile Computer Laboratory largely funded by the Cray Research Foundation. Bert Grover, Wisconsin’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, was one of the dignitaries who attended and made an address. Carl Wehman, our representative, said it went very well, with a great deal of interest shown in the Mobile Laboratory.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-05, HANNAH IS DOING WELL,”The bone marrow transplant to Hannah Bauer took place on March 19, with no major complications. She tolerated the chemotherapy very well. It is anticipated she will be in the hospital for another month. The tiny donor, her sister Britta, is at home and doing fine. Cray Research, the Company and employees, haveraised large sums of money toward the devastating costs of the procedure and attendant expenses which will probably be ongoing for some time. Rice Lake designated March HANNAH MONTH and has held numerous fund-raisers, contributing over $3700 already. This is not counting the latest, a skating party at Postle’s last Sunday; total admissions donated. The All-Chippewa THRIFT SALE for Hannah will be Saturday, April 21, at the McDonell Commons, 8 to 4 o’clock. Volunteers are needed to help transport donations, set up, work the tables, and clean up. Call Judy King, extension 4709, to volunteer or for more information.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-04-26, eec ACTIVITIES,”Food collected in the recent drive amounted to 1550 pounds, plus $40 in cash, meriting a Cray Match of $1,590. Thanks to all who contributed! Save Saturday, May 19, for VISION–Volunteer Improvement Service In Our Neighborhoods. Ours is a house-painting project. Details later.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, CAREER DAY,”Susan Lightfoot and Hank Erickson of Manufacturing participated in this event at Bloomer High School April 19, giving presentations on our business and responding to questions. They said it was a great experience.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-03, EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION,”Marv Bausman represented Cray Research at this banquet honoring for academic excellence fifty graduating seniors of the Eau Claire high schools and the instructors who helped them the most, at the Civic Center last Thursday. On April 25 North High School and Stillson Grade School benefited from Marv’s specialties, fiber optics and lasers. He gave three talks at North on “”Fiber Optics in Today’s World”” for Global Awareness Day. At Stillson he geared the basics to two groups, K-2 and 3-5, with demonstrations of practical applications.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-24, NO. 5 FOR NCAR?,”Last week an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP system, Serial 1036, was delivered to our second customer in all the world, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. From our news release: “”‘Our supercanputers are the only systems available today which can accommodate the enormous environmental models run at institutions such as NCAR,’ said Rollwagen. • •. ‘The new CRAY Y-MP system will enable us to undertake s~ations that would be ~ssible without it, especially in research to improve our understanding of global warming,’ said Bill Buzbee, Director of NCAR’s Scientific Canputing Division. NCAR has been in the forefront of the debate about the “”greenhouse effect'”” . • • Last November, NCAR canputational research scientist Bob Chervin along with Dr. Albert Semtner, Jr., from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., were presented with a Cray Research Gigaflop Performance Award for their global ocean model. By modifying their program to run in parallel on all eight processors of the CRAY Y-MP system in Cray Research’s Mendota Heights, Minn., facility, the researchers were able to achieve a speed of 1.125 billion calculations per second, or 1.125 gigaflops.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, NATIONAL MATHCOUNTS 1990,”The Cray Research Foundation has made major grants of $75,000 annually to this intensely concentrated math program for 7th and 8th graders. The culmination of a year of coaching and competition at school, chapter, and state level is the coming together of the state winners in the National Competition held in Washington DC. The seventh MATHCOUNTS took place in the Sheraton Washington May 18-19. Bill Linder-Scholer and I attended the final rounds of the competition, a reception for the sponsors, and the Awards Banquet. In addition to the elimination countdown to determine the top Mathlete were the Team, Target, Sprint, and Masters Rounds. Both Minnesota and Wisconsin were outstanding in the Team competition. Teams from all fifty states plus the District of Columbia, the State Department, Guam, and the Virgin Islands competed. Wisconsin achieved FIFTH place, and Minnesota, SEVENTH (there was the usual friendly rivalry between them). The Wisconsin team comprised Josh Grode of Appleton, Peter Coles and Goldy Singh of Milwaukee, and Gregg Scott of Mosinee. Their coach, whom we had met last year, was Steven Blatnak. Steve says MATHCOUNTS is the best thing that ever happened: “”It has revitalized the classroom and the teachers–hundreds of teachers are involved.”” The program could not work without these coaches, who give countless hours through the year for little or no extra monetary reward. Another enthusiastic local supporter is Stan Fredrickson of Eau Claire, who has been State chairman for the past five years. The Minnesota team was also special in having a girl on it: pretty blond thirteen-year-old Amy Brynolfson of Minneapolis. The boy Mathletes were Chad Klenke of Clara City, Darin Hawley of Plymouth, and Paul Mattson of Bloomington. The coach was Mark Hedin of Eden Prairie. Minnesota had 177 schools registered and Wisconsin, 149, in the MATHCOUNTS program this year. The Countdown Round was tremendously exciting. This is when the ten highest individual scorers compete one-on-one in an elimination contest for Top Mathlete. Each of the ten was from a different state. Brian Jenkins of Arkansas was ranked 10, and the first round pitted him against Robert Shih of California in the no. 9 spot. Brian was first to solve two of three problems, winning the round. Then he went on to best all eight of the others, who had scored higher than he in the written test. Brian also won the Masters Round against second place Mathew Crawford of Alabama and third place Daniel Schepler of Ohio. A special prize was awarded to the top girl Mathlete. She was Maya Gupta of Washington State, and she received a $3000 scholarship from the AAUW. There were 35 girls and 189 boys in the National MATHCOUNTS this year. Prizes of scholarships, trips to Space Camp, computers, and calculators were awarded at the gala banquet for the Mathletes, their families and coaches, sponsors and representatives of other supporting organizations. JOint sponsors with Cray Research are CNA Insurance, National Society of Professional Engineers, General Motors, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and NASA. Bill Linder-Scholer helped present the medals and plaques. Scott Flansburg, a math whiz, entertained with feats of mental calculation unbelievable to most of us and absolutely enthralling to the kids. He was one of 17,000 volunteers who contribute to the program. There were 50 involved in scoring the tests. The MATHCOUNTS program, judged invaluable, costs $2 million yearly, involves half a million kids, and 8300 schools. Footnote on Memorial Day: I had the opportunity to see the Tanb of the Unknowns at Arlington Canetery while in Washington, where the first “”Decoration Day”” was observed May 30, 1868, and the Honorable Halbert E. Paine of Wisconsin, a general in the Civil War, read Lincoln I s Gettysburg Address. It was changed to “”Memorial Day”” in 1888.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-31, PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE,”The committee wants to thank everyone who contributed toward the $300 for treatment for Donna Iverson of I.C. Test raised at the spaghetti dinner. Donna has been fighting cancer since December 1985. There are donation boxes in the buildings, also.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, ANOTHER WISCONSIN ASTRONAUT,”Captain Daniel Brandenstein, USN, is from Watertown, and is Chief of the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The WEPI arm of the Cray Research Foundation invited Captain Brandenstein to speak at an appreciation luncheon for our industry and education partners in the Cray Academy. His acceptance was conditional on the shuttle launch schedule, but happily he was able to make it last Thursday. It was quite a large group that enjoyed the lunch (including space spaghetti salad) at the Middle School and the astronaut’s wonderful, exclusive space slides and talk. Besides inspiring awe, the Captain has the ability to make the magnitude of the journey to the great beyond comprehensible even to such as you and me. He stressed the team effort required in a shuttle launch–the importance of all the people on the ground–those who saw that the paperwork was flawless and the clean rooms pristine. Captain Brandenstein praised our efforts in the field of education. He reinforced the emphasis on improved math, science, and technology programs for future scientists and astronauts. He is concerned about the environment, revealing in the slides how narrow is the band of atmosphere. The astronaut’s most recent mission, with four other “”mission specialists””–two of them women–was from January 9-20, the longest shuttle flight to date. In response to a question about a space station, Captain Brandenstein said it is planned to send up the first elements via shuttle in 1995; the goal, a manned space station in the year 2000. He commented it would take a year to travel to Mars.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-14, PLASTIC CAN BE RECYCLED,”Greg Thorson of the Runkel Building provides some useful information. Dropoff points: (1) 24 Maple, Eau Claire, 835-8596; open 8-6 Monday-Saturday; (2) behind St. Olaf’s Church, 2407 N. Lane, 8-4, first Sunday of the month. Acceptable plastic has a triangle with a 1 (pop, e.g.) or 2 (milk, detergent, etc.) on bottom of container. Separate the l’s and 2’s. Containers must be clean and ALL PAPER REMOVED. If necessary, cut out the labeled sections. Cutting up the containers will fit more in a garbage bag. If we were to set up a collection procedure, “”Container Recycling”” would pay 7 cents a pound for pure plastic to our favorite charity.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, OTHER BABIES,”Four baby raccoons were discovered in the parking lot at Manufacturing after their mother was killed by a car. Rick Herrick and Mark Wagner of Traffic managed to capture the very young cute little rascals, and they are now in residence at the O’Neil Creek Petting Zoo. The great crested flycatcher parents are teaching their kids to catch bugs. Source: Lyme Borreliosis Foundation, Inc. CRAY CHIPS~ pub~hed byEdna Bunn”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-05, RECOGNITION DESERVED,”Congratulations to the roughly 900 Wisconsin employees who took advantage of Tuition Reimbursement to learn new skills and broaden their educational base. These people participated in over 1400 university, technical school, or specialty classes this past academic year. Going to school while working is no easy task. We salute them for realizing the importance of self-development in an industry that’s ever-changing. Make a point of recognizing the efforts of these, your co-workers. Thanks, too, to their families for their patience and support. Special congratulations to those who completed degrees. If you did complete classes or a degree, be sure to send a copy of your diploma, certificate, or grade report to Lois Bowe at Systems so your training records can be updated. We appreciate those already submitted.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, A FAMILY TRAGEDY,”A Printed Circuits employee’s son has been burned and is in critical condition at the Burn Center in St. Paul. He received burns over 95 percent of his body. If you would like to contribute to a fund the P.C. facility is creating for the family, please send your donation to Karen Anderson.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-02, IT’S WEEK TWO,”It is the second week of the Cray Academy. The 418 participants (363 last week) are completing workshops in twenty-three subjects offered, from “”Planet Hopping with Voyager: How Do You Fit a Planet Into Your Classroom?”” taught by Bob Kolvoord of Cornell University, to “”Photonics/Fiber Fever,”” by our own Marv Bausman. Many Cray Research employees took part in the group discussions, emphasizing the partnership between education and business .. It is hoped even more Cray people will be involved next year. The teacher students and presenters have enjoyed having the Cray Academy under one roof, at the Middle School, with airconditioning and no parking problems. The tours were much appreciated. Those who had visited us before were impressed with the advances in even our state-of-the-art methodology, and all our new premises. The two Wednesdays were devoted to tours of forty Chippewa and Eau Claire industries. We hosted six groups of twenty each day. The teachers toured Manufacturing, Printed Circuits, Riverside Systems, and Engineering. Escorting, doing the commentary, and answering questions were Hank Erickson, Jan Heath, Jerry Fellenz, John Lemke, Jeff Galde, Gene Geissler, and Doug Schemenauer. Thanks to all! Hank Erickson commented on the keen interest shown at Manufacturing. The teachers were fascinated by the scanning electron microscope, and asked if there might be an opportunity to see videotapes of the various occupations within Cray Research (Hank will work on this). He told them, “”Your enthusiasm is really rewarding to us because it is our kids who are affected.”” This week Monday was beautiful, .cool and sunny, and everyone was on hand bright and early to be inspired by two keynoters: Betty M. Vetter, Director of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology and editor of “”Scientific, Engineering, Technical Manpower Comments,”” cited statistics of U.S. students’ poor showing in these fields, particularly women and minorities. Our educational system needs repair, and it has to start in kindergarten. Of the 13,000-14,000 PhDs graduated in the U.S. each year, a third are foreign. Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri, of the UW-Madison and the National Science Foundation, is a fonner chemistry teacher. His humor and obvious delight in perfor.ming experiments for the audience were infectious. He reiterated the goal of the President and the governors, “”By the year 2000, U.S. students will be first in the world in mathanatics and science achievement,”” and said it can be an empty goal if we do not take it seriously. We nrust examine our values and make sys~emic changes. Teachers enjoy their best and brightest students; it is the bottom half in achievement who nnlSt be inspired and encouraged–science-math-technology literacy for all!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, WE SUPPORT,”The Chippewa Giving Committee sent the Fire Department a check for $2000 in May for special equipment, and received this thank-you: “” … because of your donation and other donations that we have received, we are completing development of a(n) electronic defibrillation capability for our rescue squads. . . . The defibrillation program, when canbined with our advanced. life care capability, will give our coomunity a service that will be second to none in the State of Wisconsin. “”St. Joseph’s Hospital is purchasing equipment that will allow their doctors to review all the cardiac activities of a patient fram the moment we turn on the defibrillation machine, thereby eliminating any delays in diagnosing heart problems.”” During the past year we have continued to provide Chippewa Valley Technical College with a lot of idle equipment: interface and MCU assemblies (Nova’s and Eclipse’s–drives,. printers, displays, etc.). We sent a wire bonder to the UW-Madison in June. P.S. to 1990 MATHCOUNTS National Competition held in Washington DC in May: Of the 244 seventh and eighth graders competing, two of “”our”” kids were very near the top. Peter Coles of Milwaukee placed 11th in the individual competition, and Paul Mattson of Bloomington, Minnesota, 15th.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-30, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR VOLUNTEERING,”The American Diabetes Association Wisconsin Affiliate is in need of a Chapter Treasurer for Eau Claire/Chippewa. Chapter President is Roy Wilcox of the law firm in Eau Claire, and the next meeting dates are September 17 and November 19. Please contact me for more information if you are interested.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-20, WHAT’S UP?,”In spring it’s beautiful flowers, but in fall it’s the Community Support Campaign, which runs from now through October 12. This includes the UNITED WAY drives for Chippewa, Eau Claire, and Dunn Counties and the Combined Health Appeal. The Combined Health Appeal supports the American Cancer Society, Diabetes, Heart, Liver & Lung Associations, Easter Seal Society, Muscular Dystrophy and United Cerebral Palsy organizations–to name a few. Pledge-and-donation packets have been sent through interoffice mail. With your return you will be registered for a weekly drawing for prizes in the Tech Ops lunchroom. Get yours in early and win a Cray prize! If you should not receive the packet, see your CCC representative. Another project of the Charitable Contributions Committee is a raffle to benefit the Chippewa Area United Way. Tickets are being sold by the CCC reps. About 100 prizes have been donated by Chippewa Falls area businesses, including a one-year adult YMCA membership. Buy a ticket; only $l!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, INDUSTRY AWARENESS DAY,”It was September 20, a project of the Chippewa Falls Chamber of Commerce. Les Davis was the principal speaker at a luncheon at the Fill-Inn to begin the event. He gave a whirlwind history of Cray Research, our community impact and involvement, and foreign competition. Members of the business community were in attendance and a number of our people including Marc Harding, Jeff C~osby, Jim Berry, Steve Ashley, Lou Saye, Bob Tillma, Dennis Aney, Loni Meinen, Gordon Lindsay, and Bill Cunningham. Numerous educational exhibits were set up in the Ice Arena–from Leinie’s and Mason Shoe to the Post Office and Herald-Telegram–for the benefit of the community, all members of which were invited. Cray Research’s display featured our computer on wheels, the CRAY XMS, Serial 7, as well as descriptive pictures, posters, and pamphlets. Among employees who worked on the exhibit were Terry McDougall, Tim Ryan, Marc Harding, and Donna Berdal. On hand to explain and instruct when I “”took in the show”” were Hank Erickson, Mickey Caskinette, Gene Geissler, and Jeff Crosby. Buses of school children had arrived earlier; the kids gave the enterprise an “”A.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-09-27, TAX UPDATE ON TUITION REIMBURSEMENT,”Neither federal nor state legislatures took action to extend the tax break on employer-provided educational assistance beyond September 30. Therefore, tuition reimbursement payments not yet refunded will be subject to state and federal withholding if the class or course of study does not meet all three requirements for exclusion from taxable income. These criteria are on the back of the tuition reimbursement request form. We will keep you updated on any legislative action in the future. You are encouraged to write your senators and congressmen to ask for permanent extension of Section 127 of the Internal Revenue Code. If you have questions on tuition reimbursement, you may call Del Diffendorfer, extension 1603, Systems.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-04, CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES,”to vote for Hayes if he would remove federal troops fran the South.”” There was rmlch rancor because of the questionable election, and President Grant thought Presidentelect Hayes should take the oath of off ice in secret. Just before a brilliant White House dinner on March 3, 1877, they slipped into the Red Roan, where Chief Justice Tanmy Rada of Logistics and Bruce Hartwig of Security “”tied the knot”” on Septamer 22.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-25, MISSION OF LOVE AND HOPE,”Ten Regis High School Spanish students are planning a missionary journey to the Dominican Republic, to stay at various children’s homes and orphanages. They will bring clothes, medicines, school supplies and other badly needed items as well as gifts of money. The students will give the .children love and attention and help out in the homes as needed–as well as practicing their Spanish. Of course it will take money, and they are trying to raise funds through various projects. “”If you could help with ideas, time, or a donation, please contact Kathy Hicks, Spanish Instructor, Regis High School, 835-5141.”” It· is surely an activity worth supporting.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-01, BLESSED BOY BABY,”Congratulations to Paul Bjorklund, Product Support, and his wife, Kerry, to whom a son, Cameron Paul, was born on October 26. COMPUTER WITH HEART BATTLES HYPERTENSION Excerpts from an article in the MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, October 10: “”High-speed Cray crunches numbers that approximate what happens inside the body’s blood vessels — Area scientists studying high blood pressure are augmenting traditional medical research techniques–and, they hope, chances of curing the disease–with mathematics, engineering, and a Cray ‘supercomputer.’ “”By using complex mathematical fornrulas to simulate functions of the vascular system and then feeding them into high-speed computers, the researchers are able to study processes too snaIl to be directly measured because they occur at a microscopic level. For example, the scientists have created computer models showing how exper~ntal factors affect individuals cells’ circulation, or the amount of oxygen in cells. ‘No technology exists to directly measure those changes, so the only way to conduct such exper~nts is to use computers to predict the outcomes,’ said Andrew S. Greene, an assistant professor of physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. “”The program is a collaboration between the Medical College’s physiology department and Marquette University’s mathematics, statistics and computer science department •••• The National Science Foundation also gives the collaborators free access, worth tens of thousands of dollars annually, to a Cray Research Inc. ‘supercomputer,’ •.• Researchers link up with the Cray computer in Pittsburgh through a microwave satellite transmission. “”Thcmas A. Weber, director of the National Science Foundation’s division for advanced scientific canputing, said such programs, which he dubbed ‘computer biology,’ were just beginning to emerge. • • • Dr. Greene cited numerous advantages of using canputer modeling, or simulations, in medical research: ‘It guides our exper~nts and allows us to avoid putting all our time and lOOney into a dead end.’ Peter J. Tonellato, Marquette mathematics professor, said, ‘If we can derive a mathematical model of a situation, then we can easily test the mathematical model. We just crunch away on the computer and let the computer do all the work.’ Researchers use large mathematical models based on laws of physics such as fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering, heat transport and the diffusion of IOOlecules. Such principles are useful because of similarities between how outside forces affect mechanical and biological objects. For example, both steel beams and tissues will break if stretched to a certain point. ‘Biological materials are the same as construction materials,’ Greene said. ‘Five or 10 years ago, none of what we’re doing was possible.'”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-21, TUITION REIMBURSEMENT UPDATE,”The Budget Reconciliation Act recently signed by President Bush included a provision dealing with employer-provided educational assistance that does a number of things: It reinstates the tax-free status of all tuition reimbursement (including that for non-job-related programs) for undergraduate courses retroactive to October 1, 1990. It also extends this status through the end of 1991. For 1991, however, refunds for graduate level courses/ programs have been added to the list of payments eligible for exclusion from taxable income. That means that, effective from those respective dates, Cray Research will no longer be withholding federal or FICA amounts from tuition refund payments. Payments for courses or programs that do not meet the three requirements on the back of the Tuition Refund Application will still be subject to Wisconsin withholding until further notice. ——–“”—-“”——–,—- For Wisconsin employees, it means, first, for those who had taxes withheld from tuition payments issued after September 30, a refund of the federal and FICA amounts that were withheld. The target is to process those with the December 14 payroll. (We’ll update you if that date changes.) Second, it means that we will continue to withhold Wisconsin taxes from payments for programs that do not meet the criteria on the back of the Application form. Again, we will update you if the State legislature takes action to change that. If you have any questions, call Del Diffendorfer, ext. 1603.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-06, ORDEAL,”Bruce Nelson has again undergone massive chemotherapy, almost total body radiation, and a harvesting of his own bone marrow. The bright spots have been being able to see and hold his baby daughter, Valerie, and the loving support of his wife, Des. Today may be the beginning of a miracle of medical science. The prayed-for bone marrow match has been found from among numerous volunteer donors. This is the day the transplantation is scheduledto be performed at the University of Minnesota.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-12-13, HELP WANTED!,”The Salvation Army is tremendously appreciative of Cray Research employees’ efforts on behalf of Toys for Tots and the food shelves, but they have another vital plea. Bell ringers are urgently needed for the Chippewa area. With our nice weather, this shouldn’t be such hardship duty?! Call Chuck Cunningham, 834-1224, and volunteer for a few hours. What is Christmas without “”Silver Bells””?”

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-01-03, PUT TO GOOD USE,”St. Jude’s Ranch for Children in Nevada recycles Christmas cards. New cards are made by cutting pictures off the used ones, glueing onto new backings, etc. The children make money, the school gains operating costs, and garbage dumps don’t fill up quite so fast. Cards can be sent to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, PO Box 985, Boulder City, NV 89005; or to Judy Foust in the Runkel Building (extension 4709) who said she will gladly package and mail them. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-10, BIRD BIZ,”The killdeer pair are still brooding their four eggs among the millions of pebbles on the Development roof. Yesterday morning “”Roberta,”” the robin, had two babies and two eggs in her nest in the Russian olive tree near the southeast corner of Engineering. For some time a few cedar waxwings have been visiting my berry bushes. Can that mean they have nested nearby? The only waxwings’ nest I’ve seen was at Red Cedar Lake near Rice Lake. The catbirds who live in my neighbors’ lilac sing rather infrequently, and the one I tried to get acquainted with at our lot up north just “”meowed”” at me in an unfriendly fashion. But, visiting near Wisconsin Rapids lately, I heard the most beautiful melodious outpouring which proved to be from a catbird. He deserved to be included in the family of great singers like the brown thrasher and mockingbird. Earlier an employee reported she had catbirds feeding on the orange halves put out for orioles. And have you noticed the kingfishers in Cray Swamp?”

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-07-31, GOOD LUCK  LIL BIRDIES,”The killdeer family has gone, a good sign. If a sad fate had been met by the little ones, the parents would have stayed around awhile in mourning, as they did last year. So somehow they must have got those babies off the roof and into a more sheltered environment, although what they had to fly with was not apparent. All that remains is the one unhatched egg among the pebbles. I wonder if it might explode one day in the heat; that would be interesting. Or perhaps eons from now, when the ruins of what was a very important industry in the late 20th century are discovered, a fossil will surface–egg-shaped. What was an egg? Oh, you mean like a thunder egg? Does it have somethiGg inside? Yes, it has a golden ball inside. Then it is a thunder egg! No, thunder eggs were from an even earlier time; these were laid by birds. Birds? What were birds? climates are changing, the nwnmaIs are taking over and we all have a brainabout thesize ofa walnut.””

CRAY_CHIPS-1986-11-20, APROPOS OF THE HUNT,”In 1861 there were still some buffalo in Minnesota, and famous Thoreau ofWALVENwent up the Minnesota River to near present Redwood Falls to see them. However, he didn’t(seeany), but was intrigued by the striped gopher and the abundance of birds and plant life. Elk and caribou were still plentiful. In 1877, although there was by then some regulation, prairie chickens were still slaughtered by the thousands. Grouse, quail, and woodcock were shot by professional hunters and shipped east by carloads. Fine-bred well-trained dogs were used by wealthy hunters who traveled in carriages and luxurious private railroad cars. Brainerd was a jumping-off place for “”gentlemen sportsmen with dogs, plethoric outfits, and a retinue of servants ..• going to the grouse country.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-01-22, UNBELIEVABLE BIRD BIZ,”Along with what appear to be hundreds of mallards who divide their time between the north and south sides of First Avenue (Cray Bog and Cray Swamp) are a white-fronted goose and a Virginia rail (not reel). How about that?! Sightings were authenticated by Bruce Steger and Linda Turpin of Development, professional birders amongst us run-of-the-mill but ardent amateurs. Both species (the goose and the rail, not Linda and Bruce) are out of their usual territories but favoring us because of the so-far mild winter. The goose, or gander— the sexes are similar-looks enormous amid the ducks and drakes.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-12, APPLICATIONS HAD A HAND IN IT,”Both local and national news reported the role of Cray Research, especially Kent Misegades of Mendota Heights (Computational Fluid Dynrunics), in design of the S~ & Stnip~ which brought the Am~Qa’~Cupback to the United States. It’s nice the West Coast gets the glory this time. Australia’s win in the last canpetition was a good thing; US superiority can’t be taken for granted. It was fun getting acquainted with the Aussies if only via the telly. Their sportsnanship is admirable. And I learned the kookaburra is a bird (I didn’t know that!).”

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-02-12, BOlDS,”I was startled to see half a dozen roourning doves on the ground beneath H. & D. Nicolai’s bird feeder. The birds seem to prefer this north country as long as they can make a living. (Look how the cardinals have extended their range. When European settlers arrived on the new continent, cardinals were found only in the south. They were often caged and kept for their beauty and song–although I’ll bet they didn’t sing long in captivity.) Horned larks are back. “

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-14, MORE MYSTERY,”On Monday morning Jerry Olson reported both the pair of killdeer and the four eggs missing (four is standard). Could they have hatched and babies and eggshells blown away in Sunday night’s storm? It seems a predator would have left evidence of a dastardly deed. All that remains is a small area cleared of the bigger pebbles to make room for the eggs. (I did see a pair of adult killdeer near Engineering–the bereft parents?) Happier notes: Orioles, wrens, hummingbirds, rosebreasted grosbeaks, brown thrashers, kingbirds, and great crested flycatchers are back. Meadowlarks, bluebirds, and swallows returned a long time ago. “”It’s exactly that kind of behavior that gives your generation a bad name.

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-05-21, WHAT HAPPENED IN 1957,”Same present Cray Research employees were involved in That was in Minneapolis. Here in the Chippewa Valley founding Control Data Corporation. an ornithological tragedy occurred. Three incidents at a television tower in Eau Claire made bird history. The flyways of migrating birds may have converged near the tower. On the night of August 29 a nearby resident reported it was “”raining birds–mostly orioles, thrushes, and canaries.”” An estimated 300-500 birds were lost. On September 3 there was another collision. This t~ nineteen species were identified with a loss of 300-400. The worst was yet to come: The morning of September 20 an engineer leaving the tower was appalled by the sight of thousands of dead birds; about 20,000 was a conservative estimate. Forty species were revealed, including twenty varieties of warblers, three types of vireos, three kinds of thrushes, rosebreasted grosbeaks, and scarlet tanagers. An earlier sickening bird migration disaster occurred on October 5, 6, and 7 in 1954, when the same cold front affecting New York City (birds hit the Empire State building), Long Island, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia caused the deaths of at least 100,000 birds. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-08-20, IT WAS SAD,”number. Last Saturday Rod (Tech Ops) and Lesa (Development) Anderson, driving between Fall Creek and Augusta, came upon a large bird by the side of the road. The great horned owl’s wing was injured, but it fought valiantly to try to escape. Using the jacket of another woman who had stopped, they were able to quiet the bird (Lesa remembered to cover the eyes) and “”nest”” it in an ice chest. They tried unsuccessfully to find a veterinary in Augusta, so had to go on to Osseo. There a genuinely interested vet was hopeful of the owl’s recovery. However, the large, unique wild bird died on Sunday. Lesa and Rod still feel bad about their beautiful owl. Now the good news: Bill Jurjens of Printed Circuits phoned to say they have a pair of goldfinches nesting, with six lovely blue eggs, each about the size of a pea! Gold-finches are the latest nesters of all. My reference book says five eggs are the usual.

CRAY_CHIPS-1987-09-03, CRAV TRAPSHOOTING TEAM,”Our team, which comprises George Hopkins, Tom Mayer, Dave Peloquin, Kevin Printz, Bruce Schroeder, Bruce Scott, and Lee Vrieze, took the Class E title at the Eau Claire Rod & Gun Club last Saturday afternoon. Lee Vrieze bagged 25 out of 25 birds!”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-03-31, DON’T BE SQUIRRELLY,”Squirrels are not popular with all the Cray Research bird feeders (persons, that is). So, if you have been storing up interdepartmental envelopes- don’t! Send the extras to your receptionist or Lucille in the Mail Room.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-04-07, BIRDSONG,”Meadowlarks, song sparrows, and robins; swallows, a brown creeper. A ruffed grouse reported in Steve Bowen’S yard in town. Bluebirds have returned to Jack Williams’ place. My exciting sighting: a scarlet tanager on the way to Minneapolis on Easter Sunday. (On Monday I just missed a very strange bird–a flying windshield scraper; it must have been thrown out· in the exuberance of spring. “”I just finished it. It’s yours for three dollars and fifty cents.

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-05-05, WE HAVE A SNOWY OWL  TOO,”Jon Kemper reported one right outside Systems Monday night. Chipping sparrows are doing their “”chipping”” near the Machine Shop and Development; will probably nest in the evergreens there. Lucky Bob Korsch has “”live-in”” bluebirds.’1’ve learned to live without a lot of things, Herb, but money isn’t one of them 

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-07-07, BIRD NOTE,”We’ve all seen blackbirds harrying a crow. But did you ever see a redwing attack a goose? It happened in Cray Bog last week! • A thought for the day: Hennan Hesse wrote, “”If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself .••””I ahcays feel lil.:e a damJl fool ‘u,hen l’tn clo’i..vn to my last one.))

CRAY_CHIPS-1988-11-03, OWL AT OPS,”A big beautiful barred owl seemed to be in trouble behind the Tech Ops building last week. It hid between a shrub and the building, and act~lly pennitted itself to be toucJ:ed, the only’ response being ~ wink of the eye and a twist of th~ bead (owls have so much toore “”face”” than other birds). Suzie Southworth consul ted Dr. Kanper. who said it might have eaten a large rodent and actually be unable to fly until it was d.igested! In a few hours the usually nocturnal bird recovered and flew off.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-19, RARA AVIS,”A rare bird indeed is wintering with 500 mallards in Cray Water (or Cray Wildlife Area–Swamp doesn’t sound very nice any more). It looks like a goose to me (I’m not an expert on geese, just song birds), large, mostly white but with a lot of black on the back.·· Most striking is a large red area on the face–turkeyred, like wattles (whatever they are), not feathers. Bald eagles are being seen regularly by the Riverside people, and a couple of medium-sized unidentified hawks.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-01-26, GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING!,”Last Thursday: The first attraction was a red-tailed hawk, sunning itself in the dead tree the crows used to think belonged to them. We are north of the red-tail’s normal winter range. Then, behind Printed Circuits, appeared the majestic bald eagle, scanning the River with an “”eagle”” eye. The regal bird remained perched on a branch in plain sight for at least an hour. Later a second red-tail joined its mate. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-20, THE LIFE IS WILD!,”Besides the resident mallards (who have been churning up Riverside Rill in their ardor), three pairs of gorgeous wood ducks have been visiting. (All right, if Rill is too fanciful , we’ll just call it the duck pond.) A first for me was seeing a loon swimming and diving in the Chippewa River last week. I lost it under the railroad bridge. On Monday several flickers appeared. A flicker is a woodpecker that spends more time on the ground pecking for ants than on trees pecking wood. It is a large handsome bird with a black vee for a necktie and a red spot on its head. Three deer and a beaver complete the tally.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-04-27, MOVED IN LAST WEEK,”Redwings, a pair of phoebes, and a kingfisher. The kingfisher is a high-performance bird whan it is really fun to watch “”fishing.”” The goldfinches are shedding their drab winter wear and becoming truly “”golden.”” Scene fran Riverside Project window: Woodchuck happily munching on lawn. House cat appears (from where?). Woodchuck hides behind tree, standing upright on hind legs to keep within shadow. Cat eyes him with disdain and leisurely moves off. Woodchuck drops on all fours in relief and disappears. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-05-04, NEW IN THE DUCK POND,”Three blue-winged teal and a green heron (a real cartoon-character bird). An important new “”Riverside Project”” should be building wood duck houses. There was a dead mallard on Park Avenue; they go a surprising distance from water to nest. (On Sunday morning I found a beautiful cedar waxwing dead on my front porch.) Another in the most-beautiful category is the bluebird, and there were a pair of them here last week; also the first of the warblers–the myrtles–a brown creeper, and chipping sparrows. It is charming to see the courtship of the birds–nothing more so than that of the male cardinal, ravishing in breeding plumage, offering his softercolored ladylove a dried mountain ash berry. The flicker, too, was bobbing and bowing to his intended, and offering- what? An ant? 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-08, GOOD VIEWS,”On May 31 a very young endearingly spotted fawn appeared on the far side of the duck pond; mother hovering in background. The Beaver Creek Reserve calendar says June 1 is the peak of the fawn births. On June 1 a great majestic bald eagle soared over the Riverside Park- there goes my theory of their going further north to nest. First notice of a kingbird. Last Friday the doe and young’un showed again–beautiful. Bob Korsch reports his resident bluebird parents’ divebombing a pileated woodpecker and a red squirrel! 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-06-15, A BIRD IN TROUBLE,”There was a bird in my bedroom, behind a curtain, beating itself wildly against the window. Even bird lovers do not think they belong in the house. It was a purple martin. Where had it come from? Had it entered while my son took down the stormwindows and put up screens the preceding Memorial Day weekend? No, more likely it was through the fireplace ch~ey; sure enough, I had left the cover off the 1906 fireplace. (Birds had nested on top of the ch~ey in other years, when the loud squawking of baby birds sounded as if it were right in the room, even though the chimney is tall and above three stories.) Now, how to get the unhappy creature out before it beat itself to death or died of fright- or my mishandl ing. A shoe box near at hand seemed plausible, not too stiff and with tissue paper inside. After frantic flights and pursuits I got the bottom of the box over the martin and carefully slid on the cover. Running downstairs I gently poured the bird out onto the front porch. It was on its stomach with wings outspread–a good sign, I thought- not on its side, or on its back with legs sticking up in the air. Anxiously I watched through the window; nothing happened. “”Five minutes later the head moved. Fifteen minutes later it was gone! I was so happy I didn’t even mind cleaning the bird do off the curtains and headboard of my bed.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-07-13, NIGHTHAWKS,”These high flyers, who like to nest on the top of buildings, came down to earth in Engineering’s bricked center courtyard. Mother and child huddled together in the shade of a picnic table almost as if asleep–but became lively when people came too close. The chick had no flight feathers, but could certainly run. The father visits evenings. The birds are nocturnal. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-03, BIRD NOTES,”John L. Sullivan, not the boxer but our new legal middleweight in Riverside Project, suffered an unprovoked attack by–starlings?–while out jogging. The flickers can’t have fostered only one offspring; they lay lots of eggs. But one kid was hanging so far out of the nest hole I was sure it would launch itself upon the outside world without Mom’s guidance. However it was managed, the youngster was gone after the July 1-2 weekend. A brief glimpse of a scarlet tanager, the most beautiful bird in our area; and two great big lumbering blue herons.

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-08-31, FOXY VISITOR,”A young red fox came within six feet of employees outside Manufacturing to get at table scraps last week, reports Jean Johnson of Cables. A beautiful mature bald eagle perched. in the dead tree nearest Riverside Project Thursday afternoon, the same tree the flickers nested in. A squirrel now peeks out of the flickers’ nesting hole. A new bird appears to be an imnature black-crowned night heron. Hundreds and hundreds of mallards are back in the First Avenue Wildlife Area–and the goose! (The water on the north side is yucky-green.) 

CRAY_CHIPS-1989-10-26, IT WAS TWENTY DEGREES ONE MORNING LAST WEEK,”Ice on the duck pond. And where were the ducks? Gone to open water on First Avenue probably. The males are beautiful again, the wood ducks as resplen- dent as decoys. Experienced duck watchers know they resume their brilliant colors before winter; I assumed they waited until spring, when songbirds are in “”full breeding plumage.”” When R. T. Peterson refers to “”wood duck in eclipse,”” I thought he was just bein’ highfalutin. A redtailed hawk now perches regularly in the dead tree. Robins are hanging around a bush with lots of berries on it still. Also seen lately: vivid male redbellied woodpecker, a couple of redbreasted nuthatches, and a flock of pine siskins. Half a dozen mallards flew over later, landed on the ice (they looked funny), and took off again.””Somehow I can’t take seriously an anti-technology diatribe written on a word processor.”

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-02-08, I’M FOR THE BIRDS,”The birds become active in February. Horned larks appear along the roadsides, especially in farming country. Their wants are small; weed seeds exposed by the snowplow are just fine. The “”horned”” is the only true lark in our area. The meadowlark is really a thrush. European skylarks are seen further west. The horned lark is rather long and slender, between a robin and a sparrow in size. The “”horns”” are little tufts of feathers on the head; the face may be white or yellow, with a black collar and black patch through the eye; the body is brown. Purple finches often show up at feeders in February. In years past I saw a lot of pheasants, and one year, evening grosbeaks. The Beaver Creek calendar says redtailed hawks are likely to appear toward the end of February. Ha ha, we’ve had a pair around all winter. 000 Education means developing the mind. not stuffing the memory. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-03-29, BIRDS,Two beautiful bald eagles soaring over the new Printed Circuit Facility at 234 Cashman Drive. Don Hable reported the arrival of a flock of bluebirds. Notice how the goldfinches are brightening up?

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-05-10, BIRD TAB,”A palm warbler on Thursday. It is olive drab wi th a rusty head and yellow tail, which it wags. On Friday, a kingbird, another member of the flycatcher family, and a rufous-sided towhee. On the weekend I had another purple martin (swallow family) come down through the chimney (forgot to put the fireplace cover on again), but was able to swoosh it out with a newspaper wi thout too much pain to either of us. On Monday, first beautiful oriole! 

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-21, WHAT LATELY I SAW,From my R.P. window: bluebird; pileated and redbellied woodpeckers; great blue heron; wild roses; huge turtle racing across our lawn toward the duck pond (after laying her eggs? Where?!). 

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-06-28, A JOY TO BEHOLD,”On Monday, the mamma doe with two fawns frolicking on our lawn–still spotted but no longer babies–and a red fox. On Tuesday, an eagle soaring. (The kingbirds have been very naughty, chasing the bluebird away!)

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-07-19, BIRD DOINGS,”Currently appearing singly: brown thrasher, redbellied woodpecker, flicker, oriole. In pairs: catbirds, bluebirds, and goldfinches. Family groups: kingbirds and great crested flycatchers. It’s lovely to hear the song of the indigo buntings in the woods on the way to work, even if I can’t see them. The two big humps swimming around in the duck pond must belong to beavers.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-09, HERONS,”There’S the great blue, an impressive heavy-bodied bird, common in woodland ponds. Then there’s the small green (I’ve never seen the green on the green heron), shy, sly, long neck and weirdlooking head, reminiscent of Heckel and Jekyll. The NwYOJtkeJt La.-te ‘ 30-6celt’s a naive domestic Burgundy u.:ithout any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-08-16, LATE BREEDERS,”Have you noticed how the goldfinches are singing? They and the indigo buntings are all I hear now on the way to work, and the cardinals at hane in the early lOOming. It nrust be nesting time for the finches. The goldfinch is one of the few birds that sing on the wing. R.I….1,V.n/on1. Ada Augusta Byron, Lady Lovelace, Babbage collaborator, and the first programmer. FUN ‘N’ GAMES with (OC~~t–J! “”Trtleists are juicier, but Maxflis have more flavor.

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-10-18, BIRDVIEW,”There are a lot around: summer birds that haven’t left us yet–robins, redwings, a flycatcher; vireos, warblers, and whitethroated and fox sparrows in migration; the regulars–cardinals, eagles, redtailed hawks, cedar waxwings, and some of the woodpeckers; and winter birds like the juncos that have come down from their nesting grounds even further north. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1990-11-21, TURKEY TALK,”Since it’s exclusively an American bird, how did it get that name? The dict ionary says from “”confusion with the guinea fowl, supposed to be imported fran Turkish territory.”” Turkeys are native to the greater part of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America; and the Aztecs had domesticated them. It is considered more likely that Cortes introduced turkeys to Spain sometime after his 1519 invasion of Mexico than that Columbus brought them back in 1492. By 1530 they had reached Northern Europe, and in England in the l540s roast turkey was a centerpiece for special occasions. For some inexplicable reason, Indian tribes encountered by the English colonists did not relish the turkey for food. Perhaps they were scorned simply because they were too plentiful, estimated at from seven to ten million birds in the early l800s. The settlers appreciated them all right. They hunted them nearly to extinction besides destroying much of their habitat. By 1920 there were no more wild turkeys in most of the northeastern U.S., Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. The U.S. population was down to 30,000. The good news is that something was done to preserve and expand the remaining flocks, with the goal of reestablishing nationwide. State agencies and private clubs tried stocking game-farm turkeys, with little success. Then, in Missouri, a net was devised that proved efficient in capturing considerable numbers of wild turkeys for resettlement. Return of good turkey range, for various reasons, and public support also helped. Last year there were more than three million wild turkeys in the U.S., and they continue to increase. Next year hunting will be allowed in every state except Nevada (and perhaps there, too). Hooray for the wild bird, and for the delicious home~grown one most of us will be enjoying tomorrow. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-02-21, SILENT SPRING,”Last year, January 18, to be exact, Don Hable was so horrified by an article in The Wall Street Journal he sent me a copy, in case I hadn’t seen it (I had not). The title was, “”Tough European Bird Laws Mean Little When It’s Time for Dinner,”” and it related that, although it is against the law, in many parts of Europe songbirds are trapped and eaten. Tradition is hard to beat, and it has been traditional since time immemorial to use all kinds of fowl for food–including robins and larks–in Holland, Spain, France, Italy, and other European countries. At one time in Sicily the people were reduced to eating cats to keep from starving, so you could hardly blame them for eating birds. But bird life in Europe is in serious trouble, declining by a third. People are crowding out birds. “”‘It’s a very simple calculation,’ says Peter Berthold, a prominent West German ornithologist. ‘The more people we have, the less space is left for plants and animals. ,II Europe is the world’s most densely populated continent. Although the European Community has the world’s toughest bird-protection code, enforcement is rare. In Italy grilled finches (innards and all) are served in expensive restaurants. Fifty-year-old Piergiorgio Candela, an official of Italy’s bird-protection society, and his wife, Ida, raided restaurants illegally serving protected species. In one kitchen they found 1,400 plucked robins. Trappers sell them for from 40 cents to $1.20 apiece. Of course, it can be argued that we eat beautiful birds like pheasants. But there’s something about a songbird. It would be tragic never to hear the robin’s chirrup, the oriole’s whistle, the cardinal’s melody of love. When I was very young, there were still meadowlarks around our house on what was then the outskirts of Minneapolis (51st Street and Eleventh Avenue South). My dad loved the meadowlarks. One day I overheard him telling my mother what they were saying in their song: “”I want to sleep with you.”” I thought that was real cute, and couldn’t understand why my teacher didn’t.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-14, FOXY VISITOR,”Employees at the Machining Center have been having fun watching a red fox which canes up fran below the riverbank. They tried to tame him or her with food, but the crows ate it. If it is a female, she may be dropping ki ts soon. That’s what the Beaver Creek Reserve calendar says. Also, maple sap is running; woodchucks are emerging; and robins, bluebirds, killdeer, and redwings are due! 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-03-28, LITTLE DYNAMO,”From NATIONAL WILDLIFE, February-March: “”The chickadee is one tough fluff when it canes to weathering winter. ‘Chickadees are not the suburban wimps that sane people think they are,’ says wildlife ecologist Margaret Clark Brittingham. For three winters in Wisconsin, she kept track of 576 black-capped chickadees. A chickadee needs at least 20 times IOOre food in winter than it does in smmer. When the temperature drops to zero degrees F, the bird must find more than 250 sunflower seeds daily, the equivalent of 60% of its body weight. A chickadee band often joins a larger hunting party that includes tufted titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, brown creepers and downy woodpeckers. This mixed flock, an uncamnn phenanenon aroong bird species, can scour the snowy landscape for food IOOre efficiently than chickadees do alone. Birds that eat the same diet learn about food sources fran other manbers of the flock and find safety in nunbers. “”Sane dedicated backyard birders forego winter travel for fear that birds will starve without the accustaned handouts. These folks may take canfort fran Brittingham I s study of chickadees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She fitted chickadees with colorcoded bands so she could identify individuals. Fran 1982 to 1985, she canpared the survival rates of 418 birds living near feeders and 158 that foraged entirely in the wild. The chickadees that visited feeders obtained only 20 to 25% of their daily energy requirement there, picking up the rest fran woods and fields. During normal. winter weather, chickadees did not becane dependent on feeder food’. ”Temperatures below 10 degrees F, however, changed the story. In vicious cold, backyard sunflower seeds nearly doubled the survival rate canpared to birds that forage in the wild. When she weighed the banded birds, Brittingham found that feeder-fed chickadees were a little fatter than those eating only food fran the wild. Chickadees build up reserves of fat to draw on during the night. Birds weighed early in the morning had virtually no body fat. Yet, the same birds examined in the afternoon of the same day were bulging with fat. • • • they tense tiny nruscles in their skin that raise feathers and trap an insulating layer of air, much like a down quilt. Their winter plumage has 25 to 30% more feathers than their stmner garb. • • • chickadees can shiver. The IOOtion quickly turns energy into heat, but the energy nrust soon be replaced through food or the birds will die. • • • a bird may pull one foot at a time up into its breast feathers or sit down on both feet. ”More than 70% of all young chickadees are not alive one year after they hatch. Most die during their first IOOnth of life, but others are victims of predation, starvation and exposure to the cold. The fact that any live to greet the spring is an amazing story of survival.”””

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-11,” “”BIRDLAND”””””””,”Thursday: male flicker shopping for a nesting hole; then, selecting a high perch, he began calling for a mate, so loudly as to be heard through two panes of glass. As I was leaving home, a robin perched on the rim of the birdbath. Of course it was empty- the water hadn’t been turned on yet. But he stared at me so reproachfully, I had to turn off the motor, unlock the door and go into the house, fill a pitcher with water and carry it out to fill the birdbath. Then I felt better and went to work. Friday: first swallow. “”Don””t you think, Morton, that we ought to get them a bee?

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-18, THROUGH THE WINDOW GLASS,”Thursday: Bad-bird sighting–cowbirds–yuk! Friday: Poor much-ruffled male kingfisher in the snow. Mallards chasing. Large red fox trotting the strip of ground between the pond and the River. Tuesday: Beautiful goldfinch singing beautifully, even if he is kind of a Johnny One-Note. First pair of wood ducks on the pond. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-04-25, BIRD TALK,”April 17: The first warbler of the season is always a big thrill, a myrtle, of course, a male. The myrtle warbler is a lovely little bird with interesting markings. I would say charcoal blue mainly, with black patches, and sane yellow on the head and sides. Most pronounced is the yellow tail. April 18: First flycatchers–phoebe’ s, wagging their tails. April 19: Pair of mallards way up near Park Avenue. I wonder why they nest so far fran water. Fanale kingfisher-much prettier than the male. Pine warbler. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-16, BETTER BIRDS,”Last Friday the first oriole appeared to the window watcher at Riverside Project; and a nice little flock of cedar waxwings. Chipping sparrow enjoying the birdbath at home. “”Let’s round it ott to two and gotolunch.”” 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-05-30, THE SOUND OF BIRDS,”We hear them everywhere now: the greepgreep-greep and whistle of the great crested flycatcher, delightful little songs of warblers and indigo buntings, monotonous repetitiveness of the red-eyed vireo, and repetitive but very melodious outpouring of the brown thrasher. I haven’t seen any of these desirable neighbors. I have to keep my eyes on the road while driving, and am too afraid of ticks to take walkabouts as in the past. One can’t miss the cardinals and orioles though, not their beautiful colors nor their distinctive, imperative, sometimes wheedling, mating calls. On Friday I did catch catbirds with nesting material in beak. On Monday a heavenly bluebird. The flickers are using the same nest hole in the birds’ favorite dead tree. They were sittin’ but now it appears as if they’re feedin’. Both parents are around, so they must share the chores.

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-08-15, SUMMER IS SHORT AND SWEET,”Change in wildlife is apparent with the days already ted fawns no longer. Orioles have become secretive, (Ours are no longer “”Baltimore”” but shortening. The young deer are spotprobably dreaming of Tegucigalpa. “”northern”” orioles.) Nor do robins with their squawky mottled offspring seem to be so much in evidence. Happily, cardinals, indigo buntings, goldfinches, and red-eyed vireos are still singing. There seem to be a lot of kingbircis around, and kingfishers, great blue and green herons, catbirds, and flickers are seen frequently at the pond. Both male and female kingfisher have earned the black belt, but the female has a rusty one as well. In the First Avenue wildlife area the goose is still superintending a hundred mallards and two wood ducks. She charged my car the other day (i t ‘ s not a very big car). A new bird for my life list: a Cooper’s hawk, perched in the birds’ favorite dead tree, a slender hawk with a long tail. 

CRAY_CHIPS-1991-10-31, SWAN (AND OTHER) SONG,”Checking back on my Beaver Creek Reserve calendar for the past five weeks, I find the last appearance of warblers on September 23, a myrtle and a “”confusing fall warbler.”” The myrtles are the earliest to arrive, sometimes in late March, and the latest to give up on our cold clime in favor of the southern states. (I always forget! The myrtle is now the “”yellow-rumped warbler.””) I saw a flicker that day, too, and some robins. I wonder if flickers are still with us. There were robins in my backyard last weekend. On October 1 I sa.w two wood pewee’s (flycatchers), a green heron, and a woodchuck. On October 2, a redtailed hawk and a catbird. On October 3, white-throated sparrows. On October 4, a redbellied woodpecker. A dozen wood ducks are a sight to behold, and I beheld them on October 14. On the 15th an eagle appeared high in the sky, then low over the River. There were still blackbirds–quite a flock, probably preparing to head out–last week, a song sparrow, and a fox sparrow. From Product Support on Monday came a report of a beautiful banded male pheasant trying to break into the building.