The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. Announced in 1975, the first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976. Eventually, eig
A Cray-1 on display at the Science Museum in London
Memory board, other side is the same - holds 4,096 64-bit words.
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades
Cray-1
…performance. The Cray-1 addressed these problems and produced a machine that ran several times faster than any similar design. The Cray-1's architect was Seymour Cray; the chief engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis. They would go on to design several new machines using the same basic concepts, and…