{"id":14483,"date":"2018-03-04T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-cray-supercomputer-shipped-4\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T23:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T23:16:02","slug":"first-cray-supercomputer-shipped-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-cray-supercomputer-shipped-4\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cray Supercomputer Shipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1028\" title=\"Cray-1\" alt=\"Cray-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16f89__544px-Cray-1-deutsches-museum-272x300.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/16f89__544px-Cray-1-deutsches-museum-272x300.jpg 272w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/544px-Cray-1-deutsches-museum.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/>March 4, 1977<\/p>\n<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cray-1\" target=\"_blank\">Cray-1<\/a> supercomputer is shipped to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory\" target=\"_blank\">Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/a> in New Mexico. This supercomputer, which costs nineteen million dollars, will be used to design sophisticated weapons systems. The system is a cylindrical tower seven feet tall, nine feet in diameter, and weighs about 5.5 tons. The machine produced so much heat that it required a built-in freon-based refrigeration system.\u00a0It requires its own electrical substation to power it, at a cost of about US$  35,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/04\/first-cray-supercomputer-shipped\/\">First Cray Supercomputer Shipped<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/04\/first-cray-supercomputer-shipped\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 4, 1977 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This supercomputer, which costs nineteen million dollars, will be used to design sophisticated weapons systems. The system is a cylindrical tower seven feet tall, nine feet in diameter, and weighs about 5.5 tons. The machine produced so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3263,399,3265,3264],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-cray","tag-first","tag-shipped","tag-supercomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}