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Seymour Cray | |
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| Born | Seymour Roger Cray September 28, 1925 |
| Died | October 5, 1996 (aged 71) |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Known for | Supercomputers |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Engineering Research Associates Control Data Corporation Cray Research Cray Computer Corporation SRC Computers |
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925[1] – October 5, 1996[2]) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing",[2] Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry.[3] Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them."[4] Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."[5]
- ^ "Seymour Cray Obituary by John Markoff".
- ^ a b Obituary - Seymour Cray, Father of supercomputing – Archived 2008-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tribute to Seymour Cray". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Quote by Joel Birnbaum". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "COMPUTER PIONEER INJURED". Washington Post. 1996-09-24. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-07-30.