"... His first love was an Iraqi super computer, a poster of which he had pinned to his bedroom wall. ..Cray?" Not sure, but probably not. The timing is out.

"... His first love was an Iraqi super computer, a poster of which he had pinned to his bedroom wall. ..Cray?" Not sure, but probably not. The timing is out. Cray Research, the company started in '72 and released it's first machine, the Cray 1 in '76. As a side note the current Cray, the XT5 is billed as the "world's most scalable Linux supercomputer" ~ http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/about/cray_factsheet.pdf http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/about/cray_factsheet.pdf