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Jan 15, 2019 · Seymour Cray’s “star power” had investors begging to give the new company money, and in four years Cray turned that cash in the Cray-1. The supercomputer had an undeniable aesthetic appeal ...
Known as the “Father of Supercomputers”. Helped design the Univac / Era 1103, the world’s first scientific computer. Co-founded (with William Norris) Control Data Corporation in 1957. Led design of the CDC 1604, 3000, 6600 and 7600 computers. Founded Cray Research in 1972 and designed the Cray-1.
May 9, 1995 · Seymour Cray (SC): I went to grade school and high school in Chippewa Falls. Just as I graduated from high school in 1943, you know what happened so I was packed off to the army. It was probably three or four years before I got finish my college life so to speak.
Sep 28, 2017 · Born on 28 September 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Seymour Cray was an electrical engineer who became known as the father of supercomputing. After attending the University of Minnesota, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1950 and a master’s in mathematics in 1951, Cray went to work for Engineering Research ...
Oct 8, 1996 · By CBR Staff Writer. The condition of gravely injured supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray deteriorated sharply on Friday, and he died early Saturday morning at a hospital near his home in Colorado Springs. He was 71 and had been in the Penrose Community Hospital in Colorado Springs since he suffered severe head and neck injuries in a three-car ...
Seymour Cray, father of supercomputing, was a quiet man from Wisconsin who lived where he wanted to live, worked how he needed to work, challenged bureaucracy when it hindered progress, and, when necessary, humbly started over. His dogged persistence and staggering genius resulted in the fastest computers on earth.
So Seymour Cray put it on full display, making the boiling liquid viewable through glass panels. TECH STORY: The Cray-2 was a four processor vector architecture with a 256 million 64-bit memory (the largest central memory available on any computer) and 4.1 nanosecond clock speed. It reached a peak speed of 1.9 gigaflops.
