The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers

Name: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers
Brand: Association for Computing Machinery
SKU: 06899042

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7256644The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputershttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-seymour-cray-era-of-supercomputers-9798400713729/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6808371/image.jpg?v=638737609273900000664738MXNAssociation for Computing MachineryInStock/Ebooks/This book describes the development and use of supercomputers in the period 1960-1996, a time that can be called the Seymour Cray Era. For more than three decades, Crays computer designs were seen as the yardstick against which all other efforts were measured. Initially, this yardstick was sheer computing speed. However, the supercomputer world gradually became more complex and other factors became equally important.The initial development of supercomputers was commissioned and financed by the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, which had huge computational needs in connection with nuclear weapons development. The computers designed by Cray satisfied those needs, while these computers were also sold to a few dozen other big research organizations and weather agencies. From the 1980s, a variety of companies started to compete with the Cray designs by offering supercomputers that used a new architectural approach, MPP: massively parallel processing. This new architecture, based on using tens of thousands of relatively simple microprocessors, subsequently began to dominate high-performance computing and marked the end of the Seymour Cray Era.This book is important reading for anyone working in the area of high-performance computing, providing essential historical context for the work of a legendary pioneer and the computers he became famous for designing. It will also be valuable to students of computing history and, more generally, to readers interested in the history of science and technology. For advanced students, the book illustrates how innovation in its very essence is a socio-technical process: not just a matter of developing the best technology, but also of making appropriate choices concerning the interaction of human and technical factors in product design....6899042The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers664738https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-seymour-cray-era-of-supercomputers-9798400713729/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6808371/image.jpg?v=638737609273900000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259798400713729_W3siaWQiOiI4MzIwNzA2Ni0wNjVkLTRiZTItOTU4NS0wNjlkNjRiNmExZGMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjcxOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcyLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjY0NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMjNUMTc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9798400713729_This book describes the development and use of supercomputers in the period 1960-1996, a time that can be called the Seymour Cray Era. For more than three decades, Crays computer designs were seen as the yardstick against which all other efforts were measured. Initially, this yardstick was sheer computing speed. However, the supercomputer world gradually became more complex and other factors became equally important.The initial development of supercomputers was commissioned and financed by the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, which had huge computational needs in connection with nuclear weapons development. The computers designed by Cray satisfied those needs, while these computers were also sold to a few dozen other big research organizations and weather agencies. From the 1980s, a variety of companies started to compete with the Cray designs by offering supercomputers that used a new architectural approach, MPP: massively parallel processing. This new architecture, based on using tens of thousands of relatively simple microprocessors, subsequently began to dominate high-performance computing and marked the end of the Seymour Cray Era.This book is important reading for anyone working in the area of high-performance computing, providing essential historical context for the work of a legendary pioneer and the computers he became famous for designing. It will also be valuable to students of computing history and, more generally, to readers interested in the history of science and technology. For advanced students, the book illustrates how innovation in its very essence is a socio-technical process: not just a matter of developing the best technology, but also of making appropriate choices concerning the interaction of human and technical factors in product design....9798400713729_Association for Computing Machinerylibro_electonico_9798400713729_9798400713729Donald MacKenzieInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-0d9505a0-9dd7-4e22-9351-36037cbc8778.epub2025-01-22T00:00:00+00:00Association for Computing Machinery