Cray had always resisted the massively parallel solution to high-speed computing, offering a variety of reasons that it would never work as well as one very fas

Cray had always resisted the massively parallel solution to high-speed computing, offering a variety of reasons that it would never work as well as one very fast processor. He famously quipped "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" I cannot see how this thing can be programmed efficiently (to at least 70% of computing capacity, as most vector machines can be programmed for).