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	Seymour Cray Obituary by John Markoff
		Cray, who as a young electrical engineer at the Control Data Corporation in the late 1950's led the design of the world's first transistor-based computer, went on to develop a string of supercompupting machines that were known for their elegance and simplicity, but most of all for their blazing speed.
		Cray was instrumental in creating a constant stream of design advances and innovative technologies that were later adopted by the rest of the computer industry.
		Cray is survived by two daughters, Susan Borman of Eau Claire, Wis., and Carolyn Arnold of Minneapolis; a, son, Steven, of Chippewa Falls, a sister, Carol Kersten of Rochester Minn., and five grandchildren.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~bezenek/cray.html (1821 words)

	Tribute to Seymour Cray
		When he started Cray Research in 1972, he shelved the 8600 design primarily because at that time he felt that the software issues were too great for the industry to handle and concluded that greater performance could be achieved in a uniprocessor by implementing vector capabilities.
		Once when told that Apple Computer bought a CRAY to simulate their next Apple computer design, Seymour remarked, "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3." His selection of people for his projects also reflected fundamentals.
		He was impressed with the strides that the microprocessor manufacturers had made, and was convinced that within another iteration or two, the off-the-shelf microprocessor would provide performance competitive with custom processors.
	www.cgl.ucsf.edu /home/tef/cray/tribute.html (1266 words)

	IP: Re: a marvelous obit re: Seymore Cray by John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cray said, "Well, we have elves here and they help me." When the visitor, who was a French scientist, expressed his astonishment, Mr.
		Cray took him to look at a tunnel that he had dug under his home.
		Cray explained to his visitor that he would work at his home on computer design problems for three hours at a stretch.
	www.interesting-people.org /archives/interesting-people/199610/msg00017.html (311 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Hot Chips conference emphasizes supercomputers, molecular electronics
		Cray Computer gave a talk on its upcoming "Red Storm" supercomputer, based on 10,368 Opteron processors.
		The Cray 1 was an upended cylinder in essence: the distance between the thousands of boards that held the various computing elements was minimized by having them wired to each other on the interior of the cylinder.
		But the Seymore Cray idea of using a rat's nest of conductors is what will ultimately both resurface, and change.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2003Aug/bch20030821021409.htm (1268 words)

	bit addressing, alignment, bus errors, and VM (was Re: PDP-10 arch question) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cray designed the CDC 160, and had a hand in the > CDC 6000s, but I do not think the STAR.
		But if Cray had a hand in the CDC 6000s, and he was still around CDC at the time the STAR 100 was designed and built, I would certainly think that he was also involved in the STAR 100 as well.
		I thought I saw an article about the STAR 100 recently which described the circular nature of the physical rack which was required in order to reduce to length of the wires which interconnected the different parts of the system.
	www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1998-October/111375.html (282 words)

	ILLIAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pipelining allows the CPU to start the load and decode stages (for instance) on the "next" instruction while still working on the last one and writing it out.
		Pipelining was a major feature of Seymore Cray's groundbreaking design, the CDC 6600, which outperformed almost all other machines by about ten times when it was introduced.
		Another solution to the problem was parallel computing; building a computer out of a number of general purpose CPUs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ILLIAC (2042 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Another supercomputer ordered: Cray's Red Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cray was an independent company, with over 8,000 employees at one point in time.
		Cray is once again firing on all cylinders with the X- series supercomputer setting world records.
		Cray is teaming with AMD for Red Storm, and this man wishes them nothing but the best of luck.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2004Jul/wbc20040730026275.htm (6053 words)

	Supercomputers
		In the recent past, Cray (one of the first supercomputers) time was $1,000 per hour.
		An example is Cray, since 2000 an independent company again, but they had a few difficult years.
		Seymour Cray showed that gallium arsenide technology could be made to work, but it is very difficult to work with and very few companies now are able to make usable processors based on GeAs.
	www.thocp.net /hardware/supercomputers.htm (4887 words)

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		Co-founder and chief scientist Burton Smith will be leaving Cray on December 7, vacating his role as chief scientist and resigning from the board of directors.
		Cray was a name that once invoked pure awe in the supercomputing world, but the company had problems in the 90s, with Seymore Cray's new company going bankrupt, and SGI picking up Cray Research in 1996.
		Heh I read 'cray confounder' I had an image of a guy throwing logical paradox's at a super computer in an attempt to confuse it...
	arstechnica.com /journals/microsoft.ars/2005/11/25/1929 (629 words)

	IBTE Ethix
		An overflow crowd heard Bill Gates present the keynote lecture, "The Future of Computing in the Sciences." Awards to best papers were given in the names of luminaries from supercomputing such as Seymore Cray and Sid Fernbach.
		I remembered having lunch in Colorado with Seymore Cray, truly the father of supercomputing.
		Boeing, government research labs, and university research labs were on the floor showing promising applications of the use of supercomputer systems.
	www.ethix.org /body.php3?id=304 (1612 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Shared Memory and PC Supercomputing \| July 22, 2001
		The multipliers on devices like the i860 are, in fact, called "Cray multipliers" (named for Seymore Cray, who invented them when at IBM).
		Cray multipliers are square silicon devices that take their input operands in on two sides and emit the result on the other two.
		Floating-point units use Cray multipliers to do the mantissa arithmetic and are sized so this arithmetic flows in a single cycle for single and possibly double precision.
	www.ddj.com /184409159?pgno=14 (4803 words)

	The CDC 6000 Series Computer
		In many respects there are parallels between Seymore cray and Niklaus Wirth.
		Perhaps most telling of Seymore Cray was the exchange Thomas Watson, the CEO of IBM, had with Seymore Cray:
		The 6600 had 60 bit words with 18 bit addresses, for a potential of 256k words (or about 2 megabytes) of memory, but was commonly only shipped with 128k words, while the 6400 was commonly equipped with 64k words.
	www.moorecad.com /standardpascal/cdc6400.html (924 words)

	The Mac Observer: Computing With Bifocals - Computer Pioneers II: Hewlett, Packard, and Cray
		We are also going to look at the careers of Seymore Cray, William Hewlett, and David Packard.
		It is one of several that at one time was the fastest computer in the world, and was of such interest to people that there is a large viewing window located in the room where the Cray sits here in Austin.
		It no longer holds the distinction of being the be all and end all of computers, but it's founder, Seymour Cray is known as the Father of the Supercomputer as he is credited with developing the first fully transistorized supercomputer in 1958.
	www.macobserver.com /columns/firstmac/99/november/991103.html (1646 words)

	MIND Exchange
		Toby howard did a great article on Seymore cray..
		SEYMOUR CRAY, the father of the supercomputer, died recently aged 71, following a car crash.
		He was one of the most original computer designers the world has ever seen, and a true maverick.
	www.kurzweilai.net /mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=53214 (123 words)

	Seymore Cray quotes
		Seymore Cray said: "It's always easy to do the next step and it's..." and:
		“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
		It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotation/it-s_always_easy_to_do_the_next_step_and_it-s/186476.html (92 words)

	Cray Seymore Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Cray Seymore' in the Database.
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	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Cray-Seymore/1 (50 words)

	idfive's AttentionScan: some thoughts I haven't had. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And here are some thoughts I ahvne't had from Seymore Cray, grandfather of supercomputing:
		used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
		"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them
	www.attentionscan.com /2006/03/some-thoughts-i-havent-had.html (217 words)

	Great moments in microprocessor history
		An interesting variation was to have two or more subroutines in a ring so that they were called in round-robin order.
		The RCA 1802 is considered one of the first RISC chips although others (notably Seymore Cray -- see the sidebar, The evolution of RISC -- had used concepts already).
		Fairchild was acquired by National Semiconductor in the 1980s, and spun off again as an independent company in 1997.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/pa-microhist.html?ca=dgr-mw08MicroHistory (6017 words)

	Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Seymore Cray reportedly used an Apple II to model the Cray II supercomputer...
		while Apple was using a Cray to model the Macintosh.
		My actual job title is Microcomputer Consultant II.
	home.olemiss.edu /~scotsman/work.htm (318 words)

	User talk:Maury Markowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		You know, this list says a lot about you.
		Hey Maury, it's Seymour Cray, not Seymore Cray
		Funny that I just read that List of nuclear accidents page last week and only just now noticed that you're here and contributed to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Maury_Markowitz (8775 words)

	Primitive Type Sizes - 7
		> > > So you can't run java on a cray 1 because the cray 1 is a one's[/color][/color]
		> > Can a cray 1 represent every number from -(2^7) to 2^7 - 1 (byte)?
		By the time he designed the Cray 1, he had learned
	www.thescripts.com /forum/post70104-7.html (203 words)

	INSIGHTS April 1998 Volume 5
		Even the word petaflops was unfamiliar to many of the 60-plus participants invited to the February 1994 Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing.
		hosted by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, Calif. The workshop's keynote speaker, Seymour Cray, said, "If we can maintain our current incremental rate, it will take 20 years.
		It's going to be interesting for me to hear your proposals on how we get a factor of a thousand in a quick period."
	www.hq.nasa.gov /hpcc/insights/vol5/petaflop.htm (1346 words)

	Todd M. Bezenek's Home Page
		And you thought it storms in Madison, WI.
		I copied this very interesting Seymore Cray obituary from the net.
		I did not want to have it disappear forever.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~bezenek/bezenek.html (448 words)

	Real Programmers (part 4, 5 and 6)
		Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or
		remembers things long after the're better forgotten.) Legend has it that Seymore Cray, inventor of the
		Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system
	www.infolanka.com /jokes/messages/735.html (1386 words)

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