The 100th Machine ( which is a red XMP built in 85 ) about 55 Cray-1s were made. Celebration glasses with the inscription “Celebrating 100 of the worlds fastest Computers March 1985” were issued and an all employee party was held. The 100th Cray XMP was SN225 in March 1987 From Cray Chips
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Some installation and maintenance photos on the first X-MP SN318 at University of Kiel. ** A big thanks to Juergen Kreuels for the photos and recollections.** Cray Chips Notes 25/11/1987 Shipment has been made to the University of Kiel, West Germany, of CRAY X-MP system Serial 318. This is our tenth customer and eleventh
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Situated in the west of Germany between Köln and Aachen close to the French & Dutch borders is KFA Juelich now known as Forschungszentrum Jülich a supercomputer centre that has hosted Cray systems and others. Introducing themselves with the words .. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich operates and develops supercomputers of the
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The series of Cray systems that went to Sweden started with Cray-1 SN9 later to be replaced by XMP SN206 and others. Unusually the system was shared between The University at Linkoping and Saab-Scania using the Multi Level Security features of Unicos. Work on Jets, cars and trucks was completed. from Auto Week in 1987
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Multicoloured XMP thought to be owned by Omnibus Ltd back in the 1980’s Source : Technology Stories Your Grandfather Never Told You JOHN PENNIE WAS A CANADIAN BOY WITH A DREAM. He knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was a big, bright future in computer graphics, and he was determined to be
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The VTKK Site in Finland has hosted a range of Cray and other supercomputers since it was noted in Cray Channels that … <<< but See also below A document “Supercomputing in Finland and Europe” by Janne Ignatius 9.1.2015 provide insight into the Cray (and other) Supercomputers in Finland. Best pictures extracted here – Full
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My post in “At the controls” FB group got deleted because the content was mostly after 1970 – So here we are people “At the controls of Supercomputers” – Send your pictures to the usual address. In some reference caption text if you can.
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Cray Stories During the 25 years that I worked for Cray I was fortunate enough to meet many interesting people and hear many stories and urban legends about Seymour Cray, the company as well as interesting events that happened in the field. In some cases I even got to hear the story behind the story.
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This interesting TV Program from 1987 The Computer Chronicles – Super Computers Episode Has information about NASA Ames Cray-2 and Los Alamos C1 & XMP. Shows the systems in there working environment along with explanations as to how the Cray systems are advancing science. About 30 Minutes – First part on NAS Ames Cray 2 then onto
Musée Bolo Located in Lausanne Switzerland This museum has the Cray machines that were previously in service at site EPFL. Including a Cray-1, Cray-XMP, Cray-2, T3D and XT4. These photos from an exhibition in 2022 after the restoration using materials from the original maker Naugahyde. “The Cray X-MP/48, once used at CERN, as well as the
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This cautionary tale of how a USD10 million Cray machine was built but never delivered due to regulatory delay. Turns out it was not super-computers but more likely to be a rogue scientist that let the nuke secrets out the flask. From Wikipedia: “In 2004, the Pakistani metallurgist Abdul Qadeer Khan, a key figure in
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What are the Cray Research connections with Apple Computers ? Cray XMP/48 with Apple SE inside (c)1987 John Greenleigh Cray Research and Apple Computers, seemly at opposite ends of the computer price spectrum, do have some subtle historical links. It is well known that Seymour Cray used an Apple desktop when designing Cray Computer Corp
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