MN90: The Father of Supercomputing
Seymour Cray (1925-1996) led the design of the world’s first commercial supercomputer in the late 1950s. By the 1970s, his company, Cray Research, based in Minneapolis and Chippewa Falls, Wisc., was the world’s leading maker of supercomputers. Cray’s machines were known for their elegance and simplicity, but most of all for their speed. MN90 producer Marisa Helms tells us Cray was known as a quirky genius whose innovations changed the world of supercomputing forever. [Read Transcript...]
