Seymour Cray - Supercomputers legend

[dionstrezlecki]

apparently this guy was killed after he came up with something big for the nsa, guess they didnt want anyone else to have his technology/knowledge

[Private19872]

2:29

I see you!

[catalinaguerrero]

UNICOS FTW

[Zayin1993]

That shit cray

[Azorino]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Creepernator]

ok. what did it do and how is it compare to our high end gaming computers



[yonathandavid11]

but will it blend?

[oysi93]

You can hear he's saying "sixty seven ye..." and the transmission ends. It's a safe bet that he said years.

[unixuser011]

processor used?

memory?

vidieo memory

can it run counter-strike source

[evilfreethinker]

Now that is what we call a clusterfuck. And yes, your desktop is finally faster than this 30 year old computer.

[iReallyWantBeatsPro]

How much are the computers? Like give me a price range from lowest to priciest

[Shotxofxvalor]

@iReallyWantBeatsPro 500,000 - 10 maybe 15 million dollars.

[nightowl8936]

could you re-record the voice segment ... there is this horrible squealing noise in the background that makes the video all but impossible to listen to.

[Mr27ace27]

OMG, It's XANA!!!

[coolmountains25]

Extremely fascinating very awesome and interesting but terrible.

[3elwoo]

I suggest that every thing in the museum should be presented in a working model.

[rjy8960]

Really enjoying watching the video's on this channel, but at 3:03 ENIAC was not the "first ever digital computer" - Colossus pre-dated it and whilst it was not a universally reprogrammable device, it nonetheless was a computer. ENIAC was also pretty much a fixed function machine and shared the lack of the ability to directly store a programme with Colossus.

[salemcripple]

Did you know it the movie "The Last Starfighter" they used a cray 2 to generate the computer graphics?

[KingSlimjeezy]

i love the blood tidbit, i fogot about it, kinda crreepy

[berner]

Would applying the phyiscs behind vaccuums do anything to speed the flow of electrons or offer better cooling to a computer?

[castillo183]

How much is one of these computer? I wonder if it fit in my basement?

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

Computers look so dull these days.

[vearheart42]

@JohnnyTheWolfLupino You should build your own. Building your own lets you appreciate what goes into them. ;D

[atari26003]

WAIT!

it cut off

it would take the Eniac how long??

67 what???

[vacklinge]

I have seen oneof those computers

[kevinrules99]

Wow my biology teacher told me about this computer he told me it s faster the over 147 laptop computers combined i thought he was exxagerating but this is crazy

[cheno95]

67 what? minutes? hours?

Omg now we'll never know!!!

[espdeangibson]

The cray 2 looks like something out of Tron!

[stevebasset]

What a real great loss. One of the few people I would have loved to meet.

BTW: Where is the rest?

[Nom0retrolling4U]

I want a CRAY supercomputer.

Don't have a clue what I would use it for but I would still like to have one - too bad they cost $10,000,000.

=P

[pumi63]

what a sad loss to computing.

genius never die ,they live on ,in a sense in all the latest tecnologically laden devices we use . he was a luminary and his star shines along side greats like Einstein , Newton and others.

[telesniper2]

The interesting thing about that cray 1 is that it used SSI components (MECL). That's what generated all the heat (much more heat than TTL or CMOS)

[snedie69er]

67 what? Seconds, years....

[criticalmass181]

I think he's starting a 'y' there..... So I guess years.

[LitemyDay]

They have this super expensive super computer and they can't afford oil for the wheels of that food cart or whatever making that noise? =P

[loganbook201]

LOL!!!

[benthemiester]

But can it play pong.

[LitemyDay]

Yes. and Tanks. The guy said it.

[lostinxlation]

The bottom portion containing power supplies was called the most expensive seat in the world. I have sit on that 20 years ago, and my ass was sooo happy.

[maulwurfbaby]

Sowas in meinem Büro, da müst ich nur ein weniganbauen ;-)

[TheMovieMaker123]

wheres the monitor lol

[suckerprod]

upstairs ;)

[Gmancrap]

67 what? days? cut off :P

[TOMUGUENRISU]

Years, the Cray-3 Super computer was extremely optimized and its performance sky-rocketed.

[allstars617]

67 years

[msantosmxmx]

3:06

You can read the information board last line it says 67 years

[diquetry]

You can hear right at the last moment that he says, "67 Ye..". So, I'd make a guess it's 67 years.

[aliitp]

yes it sounds to me too like "Year"

[boottrax]

What museum is this?

[TilTuli]

Computer History Museum in the Silicon valley.

Click on "more" under the TilTuli name (top right corner) and on the link Education Museums to watch other interesting video clips from the "Computer History Museum - Part 1" and Part 2.

[dastrman2]

67 what????????

[allstars617]

67 years

[bryctucker]

@TilTuli i think... i've got... to go to silicon valley.....

[marinojoe]

wtffff 67 whatttttt

fucking "A" man

[allstars617]

67 years

[MegaHandOfDeath]

im related to this dude

[BigMjolnir]

It's sad that someone would just make up facts when they don't know them, rather than researching correct answers.

The Cray I and Cray X/MP series of machines (the first one the vid shows) were NOT air-cooled, the part being shown while he's telling us we are looking at plumbing is NOT plumbing...you get the idea.

They were cooled by freon in pipes embedded in the aluminum columns that held the modules, and the "seats" covered the power supplies. I'd correct more, but there's a word limit.

[dbc1987dbc]

...Millenia

[andreabak]

67 centuries

[meatkoala]

wouldn't that make like a beeping noise with all that wires

[basementdweller1]

i would think more like 67 hours,minutes,or days,not years

[part380]

. . . genius ... killed by an impatient driver passing on a double yellow.

[Groudon185p]

your kidding?!?!

[nightowl8936]

". . . genius ... killed by an impatient driver passing on a double yellow."

Yes, the bastard who did this ... his name is Daniel Rarick. Its hard to find the name even on Google, but I found it years ago, and saved the information. The waste of skin was 33 at the time.

If it were up to me, Rarick would be dog food.

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"Daniel Rarick, 33, of Colorado Springs was cited for careless driving that caused serious bodily injury, said Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Rob Wilson."

[nightowl8936]

@part380 says ...

"...genus ... killed by an impatient driver passing on a double yellow."

Yes, that bastard's name should be recorded before it is lost to history.

This wretched scum's name was Daniel Rarick, 33 years of age at the time. His is a name that will live in infamy in my books. What a waste of skin.

[bioshockrulesoverall]

@part380 I think he died that way because god knew he'd use his brain to make something that would destroy us all I mean look how far he already got there was no way he couldn't have made something way more powerful than that

[gunfuego]

@bioshockrulesoverall lol look up Cray XE6 its the fifth fastest supercomputer.

[bioshockrulesoverall]

@gunfuego thanks man I will

[coolmountains25]

@part380 vehicular manslaughter... impatience is death by electric supercomputers.

[nightowl8936]

@part380

The asshole that killed Seymour Cray was named Daniel Rarick ... he should be burned alive.

[insanityofnormality]

@nightowl8936 He has to live with it everyday. It was, however a loss for humanity. Cray still inspires. That's the important thing. Thanks.

[nightowl8936]

@insanityofnormality

I don't think you understand the magnitude of the loss here. Even at 70, Seymour Cray was still working on designs. Shortly before his death, he was working on the Cray-4, which had already achieved the 1 GHz clock speed, and was the fastest in the world. Who knows what he might have done had he lived.

That life was worth thousands of ordinary burger flipping, gas pumping, memo typing lives. The punishment should be scaled thusly. I suggest burying Rarick alive.

[Gaur1983]

67

days?

weeks?

months?

years???

[thatmusician]

WHAT IS IT ???? TELL US !

[newton3010]

LOL....wtf? it got me like that too... im like 67 what??

I would guess hours....that sounds reasonable..

[Ravager0926]

OMFG JUST LEAVE OFF LIKE THAT U MAKE ME MAD I GOTTA KNOW 67 WHAT!!!! i agree w/ u guys, im guessing hours if im right or not REPLY BACK or ill give u a 1/5

[nightowl8936]

"67 what?"

I don't have time to do the math to figure it out... but someone should find the peak FLOPS of the Cray-3 and then compare to ENIAC and it should become obvious. We are talking many orders of magnitude here, and given that the rhetoric was for dramatic effect, I would hazard a guess about it being 67 years.

The Cray-3 had a 500 MHz clock, and many vector registers, each one a column of 64-bit registers, so assuming ALL of them could put out a result every clock cycle...

[vearheart42]

@Gaur1983 67 years is what the cards says.

[bryctucker]

@Gaur1983 I KNOW, what was it :X

[WoWpwnzurfaceoff]

@Gaur1983 years, you could hear the y sound

[hardoncrimefromRS]

@Gaur1983 it sounds like he was going to say years

[whynotagree]

R.I.P.

[tropicalian]

They are way smaller than I thought!

Man they look cool.

I used to perv at pictures of these when I was a kid.

[SilverWolfz7]

Is cray 2 the computer that discovered the worlds second largest prime number?

[herolll22]

@SilverWolfz7 the primer numbers are infinite