Seymour cray biography template

  • Seymour Cray had a fascination for electronics and electrical devices when he was child.
  • Seymour R. Cray was a single minded computer engineer, regarded by some as a true maverick and “serial” pioneer.
  • All the Cray executives at the time, including Seymour Cray, were in attendance.

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    Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) a personal memoir by Charles “Charlie” Clark

    I have seen lots of articles on Cray Supercomputers, their design. development, uses and installations, but I haven’t seen too much documented on the WEB about the Cray Engineers and Analysts who supported these systems in the field so I thought I would try to document some of the key “facts” (that I remember) of Cray Customer support.

    I also list some key milestones and events that occurred in Service during my 36 years (35 years 10 months to be precise) working at Cray. Below is a picture of me on my first trip to Chippewa Falls in 1979. Directly behind me is the Engineering building and the light-colored building beside it is the Development building.

    Article Contents

    1. Main Index
    2. Cray 1 Hardware System and Support was unique
    3. All the parts of a Cray 1 Installation were supported by the Cray Engineers
    4. Cray 1 Module
    5. Timing is critical
    6. The Cray Wire Mat
    7. Hardware

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    8. 1. Vector Processing

    9. 2. EARLY VECTOR PROCESSING • Vector Processing was used in supercomputers of the 1970's. • First successful implementations of Vector Processing are the CDC (Control Data Corporation) Cyber 100 and the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer (ASC). • Both of these were imperfect implementations. For example, the CDC Cyber 100 required a considerable amount of time to simply decode the vector instructions before calculation could be accomplished. • This meant that only a very specific set of computations could be "sped up" in this fashion.

    10. 3. THE CRAY-1 • The Cray-1 machine was the first computer to fully exploit Vector Processing. • Rather than leaving the vector instructions in memory (as did the ASC and Cyber 100), the Cray-1 used sixty-four 64- bit "vector registers" for its Vector Processing.

    11. 4. THE CRAY-1 (Cont’d) • These vector-specific registers provided for faster computations than requiring memory
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      A Seymour Cray Perspective

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      1 A Seymour Cray Perspective
      Seymour Cray Lecture SeriesUniversity of MinnesotaNovember 10, 1997Gordon BellMicrosoft Corp.See also:Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture. This fryst vatten really a great opportunity to think about Seymour Cray and his contributions. I’ve enjoyed just thinking about him in this way.

      2 A Seymour Cray Perspective
      Supercomputing 1999November 1998Gordon BellMicrosoft Corp.See also:Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture. This is really a great opportunity to think about Seymour Cray and his contributions. I’ve enjoyed just thinking about him in this way.

      3 Time line of Cray Companies

      4 AbstractCray was the ultimate "tall, thin man"*. I viewed him as being the greatest computer builder that I knew of as demonstrated bygd his designs and their successors that operated at the highest performance for over 30 years. His influ