Exciting to see someone that remembers all those good, old systems! I've been studying them in recent years to solve modern problems that... they already solved
I saw a presentation from one of the VPs of Cray at ORNL. He spoke on the current wave of GPGPU and how similar it is to the old massively vectorized architectures in supercomputers (in particular Cray ones, since he was from Cray) from the late 70s through the early 90s. Apparently they've been able to leverage a lot of their old code in the Cray compilers for their newer GPGPU features.
Bam! Another example of people applying lessons of the past to make the present so much easier. Glad for them. Unsurprising with Cray given they're quite innovative and led the way in SIMD processing.
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I saw a presentation from one of the VPs of Cray at ORNL. He spoke on the current wave of GPGPU and how similar it is to the old massively vectorized architectures in supercomputers (in particular Cray ones, since he was from Cray) from the late 70s through the early 90s. Apparently they've been able to leverage a lot of their old code in the Cray compilers for their newer GPGPU features.
Bam! Another example of people applying lessons of the past to make the present so much easier. Glad for them. Unsurprising with Cray given they're quite innovative and led the way in SIMD processing.