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More or less - from Wikipedia: The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray.[8] Seymour Cray wen
by sgift 9y ago
More or less - from Wikipedia:
The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray.[8] Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995, while Cray Research was bought by SGI the next year. Cray Inc. was formed in 2000 when Tera Computer Company purchased the Cray Research Inc. business from SGI and adopted the name of its acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray
- beaconstudios 9y agoI always thought they were named after the Cray twins. Not sure why.
- qubex 9y agoYou'd never heard of supercomputing legend Seymour Cray?! I find that really hard to believe.
- sgift 9y agoOn the other hand, I hadn't heard of the Cray twins before. Each day we learn something new.
- _asummers 9y agoThat's partly because they're the Kray twins, though I had never heard of them before, either. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins
- castis 9y agoCan you explain why this concept is difficult for you to believe?
- qubex 9y agoBecause this is Hacker News and there's so few superstar supercomputer architects (Seymour Cray, Steve Chen, Daniel Hillis) that it should be possible to recite their life stories off the top of one's head.
- castis 9y agoI've never heard of Steve Chen or Daniel Hills and I've been involved for about 15 years. It's absurd to expect everyone here to hold the same knowledge of the world as you.
- throwfast1 9y agohttps://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
- qubex 9y agoI wasn't making fun of him. I genuinely thought he was joking.
- DonHopkins 9y agoThat's Cray Cray!
- teddyh 9y agoFrom 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886
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