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Seymour Cray

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Seymour Cray

(1925-1996) Designer of supercomputers, founder of Cray Research, Inc.
  • "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
    • Comment on virtual memory
  • "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
    • Comment on the use of commodity PC-clusters for supercomputing
  • "Parity is for farmers."
  • "I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
    • Comment on Apple's purchase of a Cray which was intended to help them design the next Mac.
  • "Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system."
    • on the importance of memory, bandwidth and throughput.


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