Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:40 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

Another view is that the supercomputer was implicit in the needs of the
US nuclear weapons laboratories to do simulations of their designs.

And in code cracking. All very much a function of the Cold War.

No coincidence that Cray’s fortunes took a downturn when that ended.

Cray sold the first CRAY-1 for $60M this is what the nuclear physicists
could afford; writing off the entire development costs.