In Reply to: The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer - for you tech nerds posted by AbeCollins on July 26, 2024 at 09:47:34:
Eli Lilly paid for the entire graduating class to travel to and tour their facility in Indianapolis. On the last day, they were taken to a large meeting room with curtains covering the back wall. Once seated, they pulled back the curtains to reveal their Cray 2 on the other side of a glass wall.
They were the first commercial company to leverage the power of the fastest computer of its day for pharmaceutical product research and development.
Incredible to grasp that we all now have such power with our phones and streamers.
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