Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers

Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by beaconstudios on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:43AM (#14316899)

I always thought they were named after the Cray twins. Not sure why.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by DonHopkins on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:14PM (#14318227)

That's Cray Cray!

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by teddyh on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:35PM (#14318407)

From 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by qubex on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:51AM (#14316977)

You'd never heard of supercomputing legend Seymour Cray?! I find that really hard to believe.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by sgift on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:47PM (#14317447)

On the other hand, I hadn't heard of the Cray twins before. Each day we learn something new.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by _asummers on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:25PM (#14317802)

That's partly because they're the Kray twins, though I had never heard of them before, either. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by rcv on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:39PM (#14318847)

The Tom Hardy movie Legend is about the Kray twins (he plays both), and is well worth watching if you haven't seen it.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by _asummers on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:15PM (#14319126)

I have not! Seems to be on HBO, currently. I'll check it out.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by throwfast1 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:44PM (#14321278)

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by qubex on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:50AM (#14323923)

I wasn't making fun of him. I genuinely thought he was joking.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by castis on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:34PM (#14317898)

Can you explain why this concept is difficult for you to believe?

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by qubex on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:50AM (#14323921)

Because this is Hacker News and there's so few superstar supercomputer architects (Seymour Cray, Steve Chen, Daniel Hillis) that it should be possible to recite their life stories off the top of one's head.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by castis on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:38PM (#14326003)

I've never heard of Steve Chen or Daniel Hills and I've been involved for about 15 years.

It's absurd to expect everyone here to hold the same knowledge of the world as you.

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