Seymour Cray
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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
Seymour Cray with a Cray-1
Cray-1
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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
Seymour Cray
…willing to provide all the money needed to develop a new machine. After several years of development, their first product was released in 1976 as the Cray-1. As with earlier Cray designs, the Cray-1 made sure that the entire computer was fast, as opposed to just the processor. When it was released it easily…
A Cray-1 on display at the Science Museum in London
Memory board, other side is the same - holds 4,096 64-bit words.
Cray-1 with internals exposed at EPFL
Logic boards