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13th February 2014, 14:14
Only surviving talk by Seymour Cray.( 1976)
The Cray supercomputers have been mentioned many many times by whistleblowers and 'insiders' in a lot of different contexts so it might be interesting for Avalonians to see and hear the man in person.
Wiki snippets
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of contemporary processing capacity – particularly speed of calculation which can happen at speeds of nanoseconds.
The CDC 6600, released in 1964, was designed by Cray to be the fastest in the world by a large margin. Cray switched from germanium to silicon transistors, which he ran very fast, solving the overheating problem by introducing refrigeration.[12] Given that the 6600 outran all computers of the time by about 10 times, it was dubbed a supercomputer and defined the supercomputing market when one hundred computers were sold at $8 million each.
Cray left CDC in 1972 to form his own company.[14] Four years after leaving CDC, Cray delivered the 80 MHz Cray 1 in 1976, and it became one of the most successful supercomputers in history.[17][18] The Cray-2 released in 1985 was an 8 processor liquid cooled computer and Fluorinert was pumped through it as it operated. It performed at 1.9 gigaflops and was the world's fastest until 1990.
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially and, for decades, primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm.[2][3] As of November 2013, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS, or 33.86 quadrillion floating point operations per second
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Here Seymour Cray discusses a wide range of topics including, interestingly, some pulse technology, magnetic circuit paths, and the scalar properties of gallium arsenide when used as a semiconductor. I'm not sure where or even what year I got this, but it was published originally in 1989, and mainly discusses the Cray III and Cray IV supercomputers.
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The Cray supercomputers have been mentioned many many times by whistleblowers and 'insiders' in a lot of different contexts so it might be interesting for Avalonians to see and hear the man in person.
Wiki snippets
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of contemporary processing capacity – particularly speed of calculation which can happen at speeds of nanoseconds.
The CDC 6600, released in 1964, was designed by Cray to be the fastest in the world by a large margin. Cray switched from germanium to silicon transistors, which he ran very fast, solving the overheating problem by introducing refrigeration.[12] Given that the 6600 outran all computers of the time by about 10 times, it was dubbed a supercomputer and defined the supercomputing market when one hundred computers were sold at $8 million each.
Cray left CDC in 1972 to form his own company.[14] Four years after leaving CDC, Cray delivered the 80 MHz Cray 1 in 1976, and it became one of the most successful supercomputers in history.[17][18] The Cray-2 released in 1985 was an 8 processor liquid cooled computer and Fluorinert was pumped through it as it operated. It performed at 1.9 gigaflops and was the world's fastest until 1990.
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially and, for decades, primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm.[2][3] As of November 2013, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS, or 33.86 quadrillion floating point operations per second
vtOA1vuoDgQ
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Here Seymour Cray discusses a wide range of topics including, interestingly, some pulse technology, magnetic circuit paths, and the scalar properties of gallium arsenide when used as a semiconductor. I'm not sure where or even what year I got this, but it was published originally in 1989, and mainly discusses the Cray III and Cray IV supercomputers.
xW7j2ipE2Ck
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