The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer, Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2. The system was one of the first major applications of gallium arsenide semiconductors in computing, using hund
Seymour Cray stands behind a Cray-3 processor tank. The CPU occupies only the top of the tank, the rest contains memory and power supplies.
Typical module layout, with a 4x4 arrangement of "submodules", stacked 4-deep. The metal connectors on the bottom are power connections.
Complete processor "brick". The modules are visible inside, mounted vertically.
The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior
A Cray-1 supercomputer preserved at the Deutsches Museum
The CDC 6600 with the system console
The University of Manchester Atlas in January 1963.
A Fluorinert-cooled Cray-2 supercomputer