Cray Inc, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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34 Facts About Cray Inc
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Cray Inc manufactures its products in part in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where its founder, Seymour Cray Inc, was born and raised.
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Seymour Cray Inc later formed Cray Inc Computer Corporation in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995.
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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.
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Seymour Cray Inc began working in the computing field in 1950 when he joined Engineering Research Associates in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Cray Inc left the company in 1960, a few years after former ERA employees set up Control Data Corporation.
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Cray Inc initially worked out of the CDC headquarters in Minneapolis, but grew upset by constant interruptions by managers.
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Cray Inc eventually set up a lab in his hometown of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, about 85 miles to the east.
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When he was told the project would have to be put "on hold" in 1972, Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research, Inc Copying the previous arrangement, Cray kept the research and development facilities in Chippewa Falls, and put the business headquarters in Minneapolis.
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The company's first product, the Cray Inc-1 supercomputer, was a major success because it was significantly faster than all other computers at the time.
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Cray Inc soon left the CEO position to become an independent contractor.
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Cray Inc started a new Very Large Scale Integration technology lab for the Cray-2 in Boulder, Colorado, Cray Laboratories, in 1979, which closed in 1982; undaunted, Cray later headed a similar spin-off in 1989, Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he worked on the Cray-3 project—the first attempt at major use of gallium arsenide semiconductors in computing.
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Ultimately, only one Cray Inc-3 was delivered, and a number of follow-on designs were never completed.
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Cray Inc Research continued development along a separate line of computers, originally with lead designer Steve Chen and the Cray Inc X-MP.
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At first, Cray Inc Research denigrated such approaches by complaining that developing software to effectively use the machines was difficult – a true complaint in the era of the ILLIAC IV, but becoming less so each day.
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In December 1991, Cray Inc purchased some of the assets of Floating Point Systems, another minisuper vendor that had moved into the file server market with its SPARC-based Model 500 line.
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In spite of these machines being some of the most powerful available when applied to appropriate workloads, Cray Inc was never very successful in this market, possibly due to it being so foreign to its existing market niche.
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Cray Inc Research was acquired by Silicon Graphics for $740 million in February 1996.
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Key among these was the use of the Cray Inc-developed HIPPI computer bus and details of the interconnects used in the T3 series.
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In May 2004, Cray Inc was announced to be one of the partners in the United States Department of Energy's fastest-computer-in-the-world project to build a 50 teraFlops machine for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Cray Inc was sued in 2002 by Isothermal Systems Research for patent infringement.
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The suit claimed that Cray Inc used ISR's patented technology in the development of the Cray Inc X1.
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In 2004, Cray Inc completed the Red Storm system for Sandia National Laboratories.
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Cray Inc XT4, introduced in 2006 added support for DDR2 memory, newer dual-core and future quad-core Opteron processors and utilized a second generation SeaStar2 communication coprocessor.
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On November 13,2006, Cray Inc announced a new system, the Cray Inc XMT, based on the MTA series of machines.
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In 2006, Cray Inc announced a vision of products dubbed Adaptive Supercomputing.
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In early 2010, Cray Inc introduced the Cray Inc CX1000, a rack-mounted system with a choice of compute-based, GPU-based, or SMP-based chassis.
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In October 2012 Cray Inc announced the Cray Inc XK7 which supports the NVIDIA Kepler GPGPU and announced that the ORNL Jaguar system would be upgraded to an XK7 and capable of over 20 petaflops.
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In 2011, Cray Inc launched the OpenACC parallel programming standard organization.
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However, in 2019 Cray Inc announced that it was deprecating OpenACC, and will support OpenMP.
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On November 9,2012, Cray announced the acquisition of Appro International, Inc, a California-based privately held developer of advanced scalable supercomputing solutions.
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On June 28,2022, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration inaugurated the nation's newest weather and climate supercomputers, two HPE Cray Inc supercomputers installed and operated by General Dynamics.
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