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Accomplishments of Computer Designer Seymour Cray

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known to the general public, Cray was a celebrity within the computing industry. His accomplishing in the development of the supercomputer are considered pivotal to the development of the entire  industry. In short, Cray was a reclusive genius who pioneered an industry (Wolfe and Wirbel 1). A slightly quirky genius, his innovative designs led the way throughout the  1960s and 70s toward ever-faster computers during the heyday of his career. In the days before PCs brought computing to the general public, Cray was the computer industrys closest equivalent  to a rock star (Wolfe and Wirbel 1). For more than two decades, the fastest computers in the world were built according to his designs. His credits include the  worlds first all-transistor computer - the Control Data 1604, as well as a long line of market-pacing supercomputers like the CD6600 and 7600, as well as the landmark Clay  1, which was released in 1976 (Wolfe and Wirbel 1). So many of Crays ideas have proven to be seminal to todays computing systems, both large and small that it  is virtually impossible to overstate his contributions to this field (Anonymous 2). One of Crays principal talents was his incredible ability for developing high-performance, high speed computer systems, with slow  components ( Anonymous 2). He was a truly a "master" of computer architecture, creating computer systems with both skill and elegance of design. Biographer Charles J. Murray tells us  that the computer age actually began with Crays codebreaking activities during World War II. The ability to break the enemys codes required a method of testing extremely large numbers  of possible substitutions on coded texts. Cray worked in signal intelligence (Wolfe and Wirbel 1). After the war, this activity continued, but was "farmed out" by the Navy to