A very good book about this topic: The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer http://www.amazon.com/The-Superm

A very good book about this topic: The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer http://www.amazon.com/The-Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Supercomputer/dp/0471048852/ http://www.amazon.com/The-Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Superco... It's a great book about Seymour Cray (biography) that details all his work. He was one of the very best, a real hero. Sadly he died in a car accident in the nineties.