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CRAY INC., CX-1 PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CHM #: 102741154, X7838.2016 Date: 2008 Donor: Gift of Cray Inc. Supercomputers have been the lifeblood of
high-technology development and advanced scientific research since their first appearance in the 1960s. As they are expensive to purchase and operate, these ultra-fast machines are often shared with many users to make them more cost effective. To bring supercomputing performance to the desktop and to partially eliminate the need to share supercomputer resources with other users, Cray developed the cx-1 “personal supercomputer,� a desk-side platform for advanced high-performance computing. The system runs a version of Windows or Linux, and its hardware can be optimized by the user for a wide range of applications.
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