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Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, it also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. As of
Cray-2 supercomputer
Cray T3E processor board
Cray-designed HLRN-III Konrad (XC30/XC40) at Zuse Institute Berlin, featuring a portrait of German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, 2014
Cray stand at the 2018 Supercomputing Conference SC18 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Cray-2
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The Cray-2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by Cray Research starting in 1985. At 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released, a title
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…faster than all other computers at the time. The first system was sold within a month for $8.8 million. Seymour Cray continued working, this time on the Cray-2, though it ended up being only marginally faster than the Cray X-MP, developed by another team at the company. Cray soon left the CEO position to become…
Cray-2 central unit (foreground) and Fluorinert-cooling "waterfall" (background), on display at the EPFL.
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![A Cray-2, serial number 2101 and its Fluorinert-cooling "waterfall", formerly of NERSC, the only 8-processor example ever made[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Cray2.jpg/500px-Cray2.jpg)
A Cray-2, serial number 2101 and its Fluorinert-cooling "waterfall", formerly of NERSC, the only 8-processor example ever made[citation needed]