12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
4:35 a.m.
On 10/12/2012 3:14 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
TeoZ wrote:
although this is third hand with no personal experience, there was
supposedly a significant amount of highly proprietary code developed by
the oil companies for analysis of seismic data in their search for
crude. ( I HAVE seen government acquired lists of Cray systems and
where they were installed that showed the oil companies as the second
largest consumer of the systems so it makes sense.)
Steve Shumaker
steve
and what software would you run on it
Anything written in Fortran. Some other languages were supported, but
the majority of customers used them for Fortran.
(I assume everything was custom per order)?
The system software (OS, compilers, etc.) certainly wasn't. Hopefully
the software licenses are transferable with the hardware, but having
never looked at Cray licenses, I have no idea.
There even was third-party off-the-shelf application software for
these things. For instance, plastic mold flow simulation, which is
the main thing Apple's Cray was used for (but not what it was
originally purchased for).