CMoA has obtained a rare 1985 CRAY-2 supercomputer from NASA who used it to simulate flight for hundreds of research aircraft at NASA’s Langley Research Center.

The Cray-2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by Cray Research starting in 1985. At 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released, replacing the Cray X-MP in that spot. It was, in …

The use of the Cray 2 supercomputer, the fastest computer in the world, at ARC is detailed. The Cray 2 can perform 250 million calculations per second and has 10 times the memory of any other...

Aug 29, 2018 · An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows what passed for a giant computer in 1986. The Cray 2 runs at 250 MHz and had two gigabytes of...

The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and simulation resource for NASA missions in aerodynamics, space exploration, studies in weather patterns and ocean currents, and ...

Dec 31, 2014 · The Center's Cray 2 supercomputer is capable of performing a half-billion calculations per second and allows researchers to conduct studies in three dimensions rather than two. Photograph and caption published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 112), by James Schultz.

1980s NASA also established the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Program to pioneer supercomputing technologies and make them available to the aerospace com-munity. The NAS Program, for example, acquired the first full-scale Cray-2 and first Cray YMP computer systems and developed the first supercomputer UNIX environment.

Jun 5, 2012 · The Cray-2 suppercomputer was made by Cray Research beginning in 1985. For a time, it held the title of world’s fastest computing machine. The CRAY-2 had more memory than several hundred PCs...

The use of the Cray 2 supercomputer, the fastest computer in the world, at ARC is detailed. The Cray 2 can perform 250 million calculations per second and has 10 times the memory of any other computer.

A suite of thirteen large Fortran benchmark codes were run on Cray-2 and Cray X-MP supercomputers. These codes were a mix of compute-intensive scientific application programs (mostly Computational Fluid Dynamics) and some …