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HPE buying supercomputer pioneer Cray

Cray Computer was founded in 1972 in Minneapolis by Seymour Cray (1925–1996). The company shipped its first Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1 to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 and it cost $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 MFLOPS and an 8 MB of main memory. Seymore Cray standing next to his supercomputer. (Source: Cray Research)   The ...

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Cray Computer was founded in 1972 in Minneapolis by Seymour Cray (1925–1996). The company shipped its first Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1 to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 and it cost $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 MFLOPS and an 8 MB of main memory. Seymore Cray standing next to his supercomputer. (Source: Cray Research)   The architecture of the Cray-1 system reflected its designer's penchant for bridging technical hurdles with revolutionary ideas. In order to increase the speed of this system, it was built with a unique “C” shape so the integrated circuits could be placed
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