During the Labor Day weekend, my family and I went to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. We saw one of the Cray computers (the Cray-1) that NASA used. While the Cray computers have changed, and supercomputers as a class have lost a bit of their mythological cachet, the supercomputing’s legacy is playing a greater role in the way we write software today.
How Supercomputers Still Influence Programming
October 29, 2008