Here’s Clive England’s recent online talk at The National Museum of Computing
Hear an inside account of the Cray-1 supercomputer and the evolution of Cray machines, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Cray Research.
A quick screenshot:
And this related site has a lot of goodness in it:
I was surprised to learn that Serial Number 1 of the Cray 1 series was installed in the UK - it turns out it spent just 18 months at its initial home at Los Alamos before being replaced by a bigger model, and was then relocated to Bracknell, and onward to other UK sites, each time being replaced by a model with ‘automatic error correction’.
Channels Vol 1 No 3 (pdf) “Daresbury A Lab with a future…”
SN1 was on loan from Cray Research Inc. and installed at Daresbury following an agreement between the Science Research Council at the time and Cray UK. 30% of the time was rented by SRC for scientists and the remaining time dedicated to other potential Cray customers. There had been considerable pressure to buy a British computer, such as the ICL DAP (one was installed at Queen Mary College, London) but it was believed that the Cray was more appropriate to the current requirements and the arrangement allowed this to be proven.
Also:
Serial number 2 was scrapped after NCAR persuaded CRI that built in protection against memory errors was required
Previously and related topics:
