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Cray and left
As a result, Cray left CDC and started a new company HQ only yards from the CDC lab.
CDC only lost that title in the 1970s after Cray left the company to found Cray Research ( CRI ).
Therefore, Cray left CDC to form the Cray Research company in 1972.
During the early 1970s, Seymour Cray left to form his own company, which quickly drove CDC out of its leadership position in the supercomputer market.
However, shortly after completing the design Cray left to join Control Data Corporation.
In 1976 the Cray-1 was developed by Seymour Cray, who had left Control Data in 1972 to form his own company.
Seymour Cray left CDC in the early 1970s when they refused to continue funding of his CDC 8600 project.
Seymour Cray designed this system before he left UNIVAC to found Control Data Corporation.
In 1972 Cray decided that he couldn't work under such conditions, and left CDC to form Cray Research.
Chen left Cray Research in 1987.
This left a bad taste for Unix-like systems at the National Laboratories and with the manufacturer, Cray Research, Inc., of the hardware who went on to develop their own batch oriented operating system, COS ( Cray Operating System ) and their own vectorizing Fortran compiler named " CFT " ( Cray ForTran ) both written in the Cray Assembly Language ( CAL ).
Several buildings on the island that are still left over from the 19th century and earlier include the Cray House, a rare remaining example of post and plank construction, the old Stevensville post office ( left, yellow building in center ), Christ Episcopal Church, and the Stevensville Train Depot ( right ).

Cray and CDC
Vendors of high-performance scientific computers ( e. g., Burroughs, CDC, Cray, Honeywell, IBM, Texas Instruments, and UNIVAC ) added extensions to Fortran to take advantage of special hardware features such as instruction cache, CPU pipelines, and vector arrays.
The CDC 6600 designed by Seymour Cray in 1964 used a load / store architecture with only two addressing modes ( register + register, and register + immediate constant ) and 74 opcodes, with the basic clock cycle / instruction issue rate being 10 times faster than the memory access time.
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ), and later at Cray Research.
The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance.
Four years after leaving CDC, Cray delivered the 80 MHz Cray 1 in 1976, and it became one of the most successful supercomputers in history.
In the years 1968 to 1972, Cray was working at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) on a new machine known as the CDC 8600, the logical successor to his earlier CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 designs.
Earlier Cray designs at CDC had included separate computers dedicated to this task, but this was no longer needed.
For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far.
Seymour Cray was likewise chosen to be the chief designer, but he was still in the process of completing an early version of the 1103-based Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ), and he did not leave Sperry to join CDC until it was complete.
Cray joined the next year, and he immediately built a small transistor-based 6-bit machine known as the " CDC Little Character " to test his ideas on large-system design and transistor-based machines.
One of the ways they hoped to improve the CDC 1604 was to use better transistors, and Cray used the new silicon transistors using the planar process, developed by Fairchild Semiconductor.
Cray then turned to the design of the CDC 8600.
Discussion topics include CDC 1604, CDC 6600, CDC 7600, CDC 8600, CDC STAR-100 and Seymour Cray.

Cray and 1972
By 1971 CDC was having cash flow problems and the design was still not coming together, prompting Cray to leave the company in 1972.
Rennie Cray embarks on a quest to avenge the death of his wife, who was struck down years before by a serial killer known as Fargo, who hunts and kills women with his 1972 Cadillac Eldorado.

Cray and form
Apart from the River Thames the other rivers within the Borough are the River Darent, which, with its tributary the River Cray and the smaller Stanham River, all form part of its north-eastern boundary ; and the River Shuttle, a tributary of the Cray.
While he went on to form his own company, Cray Research, work continued at CDC in developing high-end mainframe computers ( supercomputers )— led by another famous architect, Neil Lincoln.
The successor CDC 8600 was never completed, and Seymour Cray went on to form his own company, Cray Research.
The estate of Foots Cray Place was rebuilt about 1754 for Bourchier Cleeve, on the site of the manor, as a Palladian mansion that was attributed to Isaac Ware ; it was illustrated in this form in Vitruvius Britannicus iv ( 1777, pls.
Foots Cray stable block and adjacent walled garden were placed on the English Heritage ' at risk ' register but have now been rescued following redevelopment by Morgan Restoration to form a luxury home that was for sale in 2008 at £ 3. 5 million.
This was not the first time this had happened, and as in the past, Cray decided to form his own company.
It was apparently later considered as an add-on for the Cray T90 series in the form of the T94 / SSS, but it seems highly unlikely this was ever built.
Significant tributaries include the Mole, Wandle, Ravensbourne ( tidal reach known as ' Deptford Creek ') with its tributary the Quaggy, and the Darent and its tributary the Cray which together form part of the eastern boundary of Greater London.

Cray and own
Notable exceptions include IBM mainframes, which support IBM's own format ( in addition to the IEEE 754 binary and decimal formats ), and Cray vector machines, where the T90 series had an IEEE version, but the SV1 still uses Cray floating-point format.
Libraries started with Cray Research's own offerings and Netlib.
Cray in turn demanded ( in 1962 ) to have his own remote lab, saying that otherwise, he would quit.
At the time, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. asked ( words to the effect of ) How is it that this tiny company of 34 people — including the janitor — can be beating us when we have thousands of people ?, to which Cray reportedly quipped You just answered your own question.
Sidcup contains a number of districts, some of them once villages in their own right-Blackfen, Foots Cray, Longlands, and Lamorbey.
He was part of the Aquarius project, a quad-core CPU project ( simulated on Apple's own Cray XMP-48 ) that was intended to become a 3D-based successor to the Macintosh.
Cray begged to be exempted in order to get the 8600 shipping, and when this request was refused he instead had his own pay cut to minimum wage to solve the problem.
The project was not considered a success, and the parent company in Minneapolis decided to end work on the Cray-3 in favour of their own design, the Cray C90.
In 1856 the EKR again unsuccessfully sought running powers over the SER into London, and then obtained powers to build its own route via St Mary Cray railway station and Bromley South railway station.
The people of Tesh, the people of Khadoh, the Salkrikaltor Cray, and the hotchi of the Rudewood all speak their own, eponymous languages.
After some discussion he eventually convinced him that since most of their customers were running E & S graphics hardware on Cray Research machines and other supercomputers, it would make sense if E & S could offer their own low-cost platform instead.
As he rose to prominence in the legal profession, the family moved to a substantial Jacobean house with its own private theatre in North Cray, Kent, as the Welsh properties were too far away.
These involved building their own line from Strood to St Mary Cray where it would connect to the WELCPR at ( then named Bromley ).

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