19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
12:04 a.m.
--On January 17, 2014 3:06:04 PM -0500 allison <ajp166 at verizon.net>
wrote:
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