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The Steve Jobs of supercomputers: We remember Seymour Cray

tengel

Great article; minor correction

Thanks for the great article remembering the man and his companies that heralded today's technologies (like the 'supercomputer in your pocket' iPhone) ... Regarding "Just one Cray-3 was ever delivered – to the US National Center for Atmospheric Research – but unreliability issues saw it taken out of service." I wish to correct the record: that system, s/n 5, which NCAR called "graywolf" (see https://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/cray/graywolf.jsp), was in use by NCAR until the day after Cray Computer Corporation filed Chapter 11. NCAR also had access to another Cray-3, s/n 7, that was located in the checkout bay at CCC's Colorado Springs headquarters, and used it extensively.