Cray

  • Cray-1 Supercomputer Recreated On FPGA

    FPGA Cray 1-A (left) and the original Cray-1 supercomputer (right) Self-described “computational necromancer” Chris Fenton lives up to this description given his penchant for recreating classic computer hardware using FPGAs. With the assistance of the original design documents, reference manuals, and the like Chris recreated the iconic 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer on a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600…