Cray-1

The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed by a team including Seymour Cray for Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history.

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In the early 1970s Cray was working at Control Data on a new machine known as the CDC 8600, the logical successor to his earlier CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 designs. The 8600 was essentially made up of four 7600's in a box, with an additional special mode that allowed them to operate lock-step in a SIMD fashion.

Supercomputer: A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1920 to refer to the large custom built tabulators IBM had made for Columbia ...

Seymour Cray: Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 ? October 5, 1996) was a supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray Research. For about 30 years, the short answer to the question "Which company makes the fastest computer?" was "Wherever Seymour Cray is working now."...

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Robert Cray Rolling Stone no. 502 June 1987