19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
10:54 a.m.
On 19/01/2014 00:04, Mike Alexander wrote:
--On January 17, 2014 3:06:04 PM -0500 allison
<ajp166 at verizon.net>
wrote:
The folks where I worked at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
http://www.pol.ac.uk/
which was based at Bidston Observatory
http://www.bidstonhill.org.uk/heritage/trail08/
had access to the Cray at Daresbury via an Remote Job Entry system.
http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/computing_history/cray-1s.html
They used it for Oceanographic modelling. I seem to remember we had an
allocation of one hour of CPU time per week and we struggled to use it.
(Is this the same Cray we are talking about here?)
I also note that Cray INC. are still involved at Daresbury labs....
http://www.hector.ac.uk/abouthector/partners/index.php
but the fastest computer on site seems to be an IBM...
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/hartree/default.aspx
Dave.
G4UGM
P.S. Will this make it to "On-Topic" and is it a human who decides , or
do I have to post in a special way?
PPS Charges Dodgson aka Lewis Carol who was also a Mathematician was
born at Daresbury...
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/life.html
One has to remember what the machines were used
for. It was designed
to solve very large problems that create huge arrays. Oil mapping is
one thing that does that, the others explode.
Universities also used Cray machines sometimes. I worked for a time
on the Cray machine at University of London Computing Center in
1988/89. This was just before the Cray 1 there was replaced with a
Cray XMP/28. Someone there might still have something. There is a
little bit of the history of Cray at ULCC at
<http://pubs.ulcc.ac.uk/78/2/ULCC_exhibition_leaflet.pdf>.
Mike