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• Jun 23, 2026 The Cray Era and the Death of the Supercomputer

  For two decades the word "supercomputer" meant one thing: a Cray. Then commodity microprocessors caught up on price/performance, the killer micros arrived, and the custom vector machine died. This is how vector processing worked, why it lost, and what crawled out of the wreckage to become modern HPC.