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The Supermen : The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
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Author: Charles J. Murray
List Price: $35.00
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ISBN: 0471048852
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (January, 1997)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 54,631
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
just wonderful!
This is just one of the best books I have ever read! The historic point of view is awesome!;-)
Rating: 5 out of 5
No one beats Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray carves a special place in the history of computing. No other super computing companies / personalities can rival his achievement (name one that survives more than 3 decades). This book chronicles the life and time of Seymour Cray. It depicts how one man's devotion to attain the highest speed in computing produces a series of remarkable machine. Anyone would wish that the guy is still around building newer machines.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Moving Story of Seymour Cray's Passion
Few biographies of computer heavyweights have moved me like this short, 232-page volume. This book is a nicely written chronicle of Seymour Cray and his supercomputing associates. The book covers Cray's entire professional career - from Cray's early days with pioneering Engineering Research Associates until his death (from injuries in an auto accident) in 1996 as he struggled to reinvent the glory days of super-computing with a new company, SRC (Seymour Roger Cray) Computers.By the way, as a native of Minnesota and Wisconsin, it was pleasant to recall that Control Data and Cray Computing made the area around St. Paul (Wisconsin is just across the river) one of the hottest technology areas for two decades. Cray was totally absorbed in computing. If you share some of his passion, you will love this. Non-tech types will not enjoy it and will wonder why he did not "get a life."
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