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Sep 28, 2020 · Seymour Cray was born in 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, a small town situated in the heart of Wisconsin’s dairy farm country, to Seymour R. and Lillian Cray. His father was a civil engineer who fostered Cray’s interest in science and engineering. As early as the age of ten he was able to build a device out of Erector Set components that ...
May 11, 2018 · 1925–1996. Seymour Cray, widely regarded as the father of supercomputers , was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on September 28, 1925. He died on October 5, 1996, after a car accident. A man of unerring focus, Cray maintained a single goal throughout his lifetime — to build the fastest computer possible.
Seymour R. Cray earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1950 from the University of Minnesota. In 1951 he earned a master of science degree in applied mathematics from the same institution. From 1950 to 1957, Mr. Cray held several positions with Engineering Research Associates (ERA), St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cray, Seymour Roger(b. 28 September 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; d. 5 October 1996 in Colorado Springs, Colorado), major figure and pioneer in the design and engineering of supercomputers, whose technological genius was responsible for a series of innovations in the building of very fast computers.
In 1972, Seymour Cray founded Cray Research to design and build the world's highest performance general-purpose supercomputers. His Cray-1 computer established a new standard in supercomputing upon its introduction in 1976. In the years following the company's founding, Seymour Cray relinquished the company's management reins to devote more ...
Feb 6, 2019 · When Supercomputers Were Invented. The notion of a supercomputer first arose in the 1960s when an electrical engineer named Seymour Cray, embarked on creating the world’s fastest computer. Cray, considered the “father of supercomputing,” had left his post at business computing giant Sperry-Rand to join the newly formed Control Data ...
Sep 14, 2017 · The CDC 7600 was the brainchild of Seymour Cray, who from the 1950s through the 1980s was the undisputed champion among supercomputer designers. Working from a rural laboratory in his hometown of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Cray had also designed the 7600’s predecessor, the CDC 6600. Each 7600 had thousands of electronic modules, each built ...
