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The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray.[8] Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995, while Cray Research was bought by SGI the next year. Cray Inc. was formed in 2000 when Tera Computer Company purchased the Cray Research Inc. business from SGI and adopted the name of its acquisition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray



I always thought they were named after the Cray twins. Not sure why.


That's Cray Cray!


From 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886


You'd never heard of supercomputing legend Seymour Cray?! I find that really hard to believe.


On the other hand, I hadn't heard of the Cray twins before. Each day we learn something new.


That's partly because they're the Kray twins, though I had never heard of them before, either. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins


The Tom Hardy movie Legend is about the Kray twins (he plays both), and is well worth watching if you haven't seen it.


I have not! Seems to be on HBO, currently. I'll check it out.


https://www.xkcd.com/1053/


I wasn't making fun of him. I genuinely thought he was joking.


Can you explain why this concept is difficult for you to believe?


Because this is Hacker News and there's so few superstar supercomputer architects (Seymour Cray, Steve Chen, Daniel Hillis) that it should be possible to recite their life stories off the top of one's head.


I've never heard of Steve Chen or Daniel Hills and I've been involved for about 15 years.

It's absurd to expect everyone here to hold the same knowledge of the world as you.




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