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Cray Research Superseded

Cray Research
KindCompany
Founded1972
Defunct1996
StatusSuperseded
FoundersSeymour Cray
FieldSupercomputers
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

Cray's own company after he left CDC — the Cray-1, -2, and X-MP defined supercomputing for two decades. Bought by SGI in 1996, the same year Cray died in a car crash.

Created by Seymour Cray
Acquired by Silicon Graphics
Created Cray-1
Notable people Seymour Cray

Cray left CDC in 1972 when its supercomputer budget was cut, founded Cray Research in a lab near his home, and shipped the Cray-1 in 1976 — the fastest machine on Earth at $8.8 million. The Cray-2 (1985) was the first to break a gigaflop sustained.

Cray himself spun off to Cray Computer (which failed in 1995); SGI bought Cray Research for $750 million in February 1996. Cray died that October in a car accident. Tera Computer bought the assets back and renamed itself Cray Inc. in 2000.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Research