Seymour Cray -- Father of the Supercomputing Industry

A Cray Research-produced documentary on Seymour Cray, the "Father of the Supercomputing Industry." Seymour Cray was the founder of supercomputer manufacturer Cray Research. Cray has been credited with creating the Supercomputer Industry.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• supercomputer
• Cray
• Research
• CDC
• HPC
• Seymour
• Control
• Data
• Corporation

[patachu666]

it's geniuses like him who made the computer world evolve, not people like Ballmer or Steve Jobs. RIP.

[ezkaton999]

I just finished writing a research paper about supercomputing. Before that I didn't know who Seymour Cray was but after reading The supermen I have a true appreciation for who Seymour Cray was. the world will always need someone like Seymour to push the limits of computing.

Thanks for the upload it is another great tribute to who Seymour was.

[thejameskan]

love the video really good

[willbirful]

interesting video and very informative

[ebr2003]

WOW!

[gnossticc]

@VRTO92 It's alright, they all made great contributions to the computer industry.

[VRTO92]

@gnossticc yeah.. I kinda realized that . and in 9 months I kinda got respect for apple.. so.. I think I'll just delete my stupid ass comment

[gnossticc]

@VRTO92 When he was told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, Cray commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray.

[gnossticc]

@youngdones Do you own a supercomputer? If you own a supercomputer at home can you imagine what the government has or Nasa? Geeee!

[gnossticc]

@patachu666 Yeah, right.

[computerflyer]

To answer a question, the Cyber 176 did have a NOS version, but NOS never supported the 7000 FLPPs, only the slower 6000 PPs. I was part of the grander porting program in 1979 while working at CDC.

[rdvqc]

@dippywatcher I don't know that a 7600 ever ran NOS - only Scope 2. The 6000, Cyber 70 and Cyber 170's all did run NOS (Kronos) and NOS/BE (Scope 3). I am even trying to remember if the Cyber 176 ever ran other than Scope 2. I did work on them all under pretty much all operating systems both for CDC and clients.

They were probably the most fun systems I have worked on in a 40+ year career.