Cray-1 vector supercomputer
Supercomputador vectorial Cray-1
- Date
- 1976 · confidence high
- Place
- Cray Research, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States (installed at Los Alamos)
- Credited to
- Seymour Cray
- People
- 👤 Seymour Cray1925–1996
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
160-megaflop machine with vector processing and a C-shaped design to shorten cabling. It defined supercomputing for scientific simulation and nuclear weapons.
What it led to
- Numerical simulation of weapons, climate and aerodynamics as a substitute for testing
- The supercomputing race between the United States, Japan and China
- The parallel and vector processing inherited by GPUs
Built on
- Integrated circuit (Kilby)1958
- Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)1966
- DRAM memory
- CDC 6600
Made possible
- PARAM 8000 supercomputer1991
- Graphics processing unit (GeForce 256)1999
- CUDA general-purpose GPU computing2007
- global climate models
- massively parallel supercomputers