Seymour Cray, the supercomputer architect, set up a new company, SRC Computers, and started the design of his own massively parallel machine. The new design con

Seymour Cray, the supercomputer architect, set up a new company, SRC Computers, and started the design of his own massively parallel machine. The new design concentrated on communications and memory performance, the bottleneck that hampered many parallel designs. Design had just started when Cray died suddenly as a result of a car accident. He died on October 5, 1996 (aged 71) of head and neck injuries suffered on September 22, 1996 in a traffic collision. Another driver tried to pass Cray on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado but struck a third car that then struck Cray's Jeep Cherokee, causing it to roll three times. Cray underwent emergency surgery and remained in the hospital until his death two weeks later. The Jeep Cherokee was designed on a Cray super computer, what a sad coincident. (source "The Superman" book about him) When he was told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, Cray commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Cray_Computer_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Cray_Computer_Corp...