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Cray Co-Founder Joins Microsoft
ergo98 writes "Burton Smith, co-founder and chief scientist at Cray (The Supercomputer Company), has jumped ship. He's joining Microsoft to help them with their clustered computer initiative. Burton joins Microsoft as a technical fellow."
Just a few things
First, didn't someone say that Cray was bought out, and it's only the name and reputation of Cray that survives, but some other company actually does it now?
second, Microsoft might as well not even bother with clustering - they're so far behind the game that there's almost no way they can catch up.
Third, the obligatory comment
A thousand BSODs a thousand times faster!
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
My old computer sitting next to me is about 3 times faster just in megahertz rating than a cray from the mid 80's (iirc ~300Mhz). And that's before you factor in architectural speed gains. What I would really love to have kicking around is the software that ran on those old Crays... 2D nuclear explosion sim's 'n stuff.. ;)
Shh.