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Cray Means Supercomputer

27Oct2003: Seymour Cray, Father of Supercomputers

For those of you born in the last decade or two, the name of Cray may have only meant a computer company or a form of seafood. It is best known in the IT industry as Seymour Cray, known as the father of the supercomputer.

An overview of his life is at The Inquirer, and a selection of links for more information is below. His untimely death has robbed us of his insight and probably another generation or two of his unique supercomputer designs.

Cray Computer's story about Seymour Cray.

Other links to information about the man and his creations:
A 10-page PDF document from 1978 describing the Cray-1
Tribute from Charles W. Breckenridge
Article by Jason Pepper
Homepage of Cray-cyber.org
The historic Cray systems page of the website of Cray.com
An obituary from a UK writer
Start of Gordon Bell's lecture about Seymour Cray
A long transcription of an 1995 interview with Seymour Cray