시모어 크레이

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시모어 로저 크레이(Seymour Roger Cray, 1925년 9월 28일 ~ 1996년 10월 5일)는 미국의 전기공학자, 슈퍼컴퓨터 설계자이다. 크레이 리서치(Cray Research)를 설립하였으며 초기 슈퍼컴퓨터 산업의 중요한 인물로 꼽힌다.

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."