"The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS" - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jan 2014

--On January 19, 2014 10:54:55 AM +0000 Dave <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> 
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?) 
No, I don't think so.  The Cray I'm talking about was housed in a 
building on Guilford Street in London.  My job at the time was to hook 
it up to an HP machine running Ultrix so people could submit work to it 
interactively.

In the process I may have been the first person to put IP protocol 
packets onto the ULCC network.  At that time people in the UK were 
suspicious of TCP/IP.  I think they became less suspicious when the 
found that the work I was doing didn't cause problems.

            Mike