Seymour Cray

<p>Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American <a href="/facts/Electrical_engineering/YYXW1KLW">electrical engineer</a> and <a href="/facts/Supercomputer/HT9NwGAN">supercomputer</a> architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded <a href="/facts/Cray/coAlupuy">Cray Research</a>, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. <a href="/facts/Joel_S._Birnbaum/fs9b7fmW">Joel S. Birnbaum</a>, then <a href="/facts/Chief_technology_officer/0JRJyEoL">chief technology officer</a> of <a href="/facts/Hewlett-Packard/abuNSYNu">Hewlett-Packard</a>, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." <a href="/facts/Larry_Smarr/q7wCdlPt">Larry Smarr</a>, then director of the <a href="/facts/National_Center_for_Supercomputing_Applications/vNNK19se">National Center for Supercomputing Applications</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois_Urbana-Champaign/gusw7HoS">University of Illinois</a> said that Cray is "the <a href="/facts/Thomas_Edison/IeDbdyP4">Thomas Edison</a> of the supercomputing industry."
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Seymour Cray