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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).â€<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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