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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The National Air and Space Museum has a CRAY-1, serial #14, in its collections. It is not on display now but will be soon. It had been installed at NCAR, where
it was heavily used and well-regarded. When we got it (in 1988), we were told that it originally had a lower serial number but was re-worked and renumbered. Maybe the addition of parity bits? (“Parity is for farmers!” – Seymour Cray.) If any of you have more
information on this let me know. Would there be any way to tell by looking at its circuits or wiring?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/computer-super-cray-1-cpu">https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/computer-super-cray-1-cpu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Paul Ceruzzi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cynde Moya<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 12, 2018 10:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Grider, Gary Alan' <ggrider@lanl.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com' <ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com>; members <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Cray 1 serial number 0 being put together on Facebook Live at SC 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I was at the Bradbury Museum a year or so ago. They had an exhibit about supercomputing built around a CRAY-1. The front-end staff did not know the serial number.
Perhaps this is Serial number 2 you refer to?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cynde Moya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grider, Gary Alan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 9, 2018 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kevin Walsh <<a href="mailto:kwalsh@ucsd.edu">kwalsh@ucsd.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">
members@lists.sigcis.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Tom Hutton <<a href="mailto:hutton@sdsc.edu">hutton@sdsc.edu</a>>; Ian MacConnell (<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Cray 1 serial number 0 being put together on Facebook Live at SC 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Perhaps I should share why serial number 1 was sent back to Cray since this is a history group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">When Serial 1 showed up in Los Alamos in 1976 it wouldn’t run for more than a few minutes yet it would run for hours in Minnesota.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Turns out there was no memory protection and cosmic events at Los Alamos altitude were different enough from Minnesota.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The memory was reworked and protection was added. Serial number 1 was a bit of a testbed and had many mods/corrections made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">before subsequent machines were produced in 1977 and beyond. That was the intent of the trial.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Grider, Gary Alan
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 9, 2018 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Kevin Walsh' <<a href="mailto:kwalsh@ucsd.edu">kwalsh@ucsd.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">
members@lists.sigcis.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Tom Hutton <<a href="mailto:hutton@sdsc.edu">hutton@sdsc.edu</a>>; Ian MacConnell (<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Cray 1 serial number 0 being put together on Facebook Live at SC 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think there is a correction to be made here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From
<a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/supercomputer/c1">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/supercomputer/c1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt">“By 1975, NCAR's 7600 was straining under a severe overload. SCD was oversubscribed; turnaround time had become intolerable. A request for proposal (RFP) was issued, resulting in an order for a CRAY-1A. While serial number 1
of the CRAY-1 computer system had been shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 for a six-month trial period, NCAR was Cray Research's first official customer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt">On July 11, 1977, the CRAY-1A, serial number 3, was delivered to NCAR. The system cost was $8.86 million ($7.9 million plus $1 million for the disks).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>For a long time, Serial number 1 sat in the Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos until Cray asked if they could have it for their
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chippewa&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9_Iilp8jeAhWFiVQKHTvIBSEQkeECCC8oAA&biw=1125&bih=1215">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Chippewa</span></a> museum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>They shipped Los Alamos Serial number 2 for the Bradbury Museum. I believe it is sitting in a back room at Bradbury now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Gary Grider<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>LANL<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin Walsh<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 9, 2018 2:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Tom Hutton <<a href="mailto:hutton@sdsc.edu">hutton@sdsc.edu</a>>; Ian MacConnell (<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com">ianmacconnellsc@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Cray 1 serial number 0 being put together on Facebook Live at SC 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cray 1 fabrication on Facebook LIVE happening now - <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">The Cray 1 that was the first Cray at NCAR and then Los Alamos is currently being put together for display at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputer Conference in Dallas, Texas. </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Folks in the Dallas area can stop by to see the Cray and supercomputing artifacts assembled for the 30th Anniversary of the SC conference.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">We will record the fabrication and post a separate time lapse video after completion.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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