Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Craywas an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 September 1925
CityChippewa Falls, WI
CountryUnited States of America
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
Farmers buy a lot of computers.
I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.