Cray

yeah, right.

One of the founders of CDC was Seymour Cray, developed some of the fastest mainframes in the world.

During the 1970s, he left and founded Cray Research and pretty much is the father of supercomputers.

So, you know, pretty much all of the AI stuff that's going on today, you can trace back to Seymour Cray one way or another.

I remember my...

Jensen Huang of his day.

I'll come down and we'll build a tunnel under your new home when you move in.

See if the elves come to us.

Maybe the servers, because as far as I understood it, there were some special chips that had to be really cool.

Like, you know, I remember the Cray supercomputer and all that.

Apparently, these quantum computers need to be cool, but things keep getting miniaturized.

And she isn't supposed to be making me think about it.

... that they have is they have, they have a, they have a pretty neat interconnection network with the, uh, with the training TPUs of the 3D torus.

I built a lot of supercomputers, you know, both at MIT and with Cray in, in the '90s, with 3D torus networks-

Yeah

... and so I'm, I'm very fond of that, and I can see the hand of the co-author of my book, Brian James-

Cori, like Gordon, was a super cool, very innovative system.

Cori was a Cray XC30, I want to say.

But it was the first large-scale deployment of Intel's Knights Landing processor.

I'm sure you remember that and how exotic it was.

blast from the past there.

Yeah, we've talked about this plenty in its heyday in the mid-2010s.

But Cori was, it shipped with this burst buffer technology called DataWarp that was co-developed between NERSC, Los Alamos National Lab, and Cray.

And DataWarp was designed to solve this problem that Flash was too expensive to put everywhere.

What a different time it is for universities, and I think w- they're going through a, a similar upheaval, I guess, is the word.

When I was in university, and we're talking, like, '90s, there was a giant Cray supercomputer or maybe a, a, a couple of supercomputers at the heart of the university in some basement, and you could get access to that if you needed mega computing resources.

And now it's just, you know, scaled into some ginormous cloud infrastructure, and the limit is really just how much are they gonna give you, not what, what does the university have in its basement or something like that, which is really interesting.

Well, uh, I mean, there are still some universities that are trying to build their own clusters.

The machine that knows everything.

T.T.M.O. unveils the Crayon Telecluster.

A room-sized oracle that files away every encyclopedia ever printed and answers back in plain English.

The hardware, TT, M, O's Cray Intelli cluster is a complete state-of-the-art solution that allows you to discover everything known to man.