COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Anthony Cray
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Simon Cray
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George Cray
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Seymour Cray
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cray-1 addressed these problems and produced a machine that ran several times faster than any similar design. The Cray-1’s architect was Seymour Cray; the chief engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1972, he founded Cray Research and built a series of innovative supercomputers. The Cray-1 (his company’s first) could perform 240, 000, 000 calculations per second. In 1985, he developed the Cray-2, which was even faster at 1, 200, 000, 000 calculations per second.
Detailed explanation-3: -Biography. Seymour Roger Cray (28 September 1925 – 5 October 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines.