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Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

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  • Presented by Seymour Cray, supercomputer designer

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Seymour Cray describes the design of the Cray-1 supercomputer, including its vector architecture and innovative freon-based cooling system.

Seymour Cray gives a talk describing the Cray-1 super computer at UC Berkeley. cs.berkeley.edu/

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What people say. Highly recommended as a rare, historic recording of Seymour Cray explaining the mechanical and architectural breakthroughs of his iconic supercomputer.

themafiaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]”

Cray himself. Here's a talk about designing it. My favorite part is his description of the aluminum machining they had to invent in order to move the freon through the frame to keep the machine from melting. It's a great talk. link to this video
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davidf18on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Seymour Cray Obituary by John Markoff (1996)”

This is the Watson "janitor" letter: link Here is a talk of his: link to this video Bill Norris mentioned was the CEO of CDC.
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akira2501on Hacker News • Mentions

On “How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip”

It reminds me of Seymour Cray's solution. Well, series of solutions, to run Freon directly through the frame of the Cray-1. link to this video
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