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Definition: CRAY |
CRAYNoun1. Alt. of Crayer |
Date "CRAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research. 2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The canonical number-crunching machine. The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray, a noted computer architect and co-founder of the company. Numerous vivid legends surround him, some true and some admittedly invented by Cray Research brass to shape their corporate culture and image. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cray had been a synonym for supercomputer since the 1970s.See also:
- Cray Research
- Cray Computer Corp
- Cray Inc
- Seymour Cray
- Cray-1
- Cray X-MP
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cray."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cray-2 supercomputer Cray Research was founded by Seymour Cray in 1972. The company was famous for supercomputers, notably the Cray-1.
In 1989, Cray Research spun off Cray Computer Corporation separating its Cray 3 product line from the other products. Cray Research merged with SGI in February 1996. SGI set up a separate Cray Research Business Unit in August 1999 in preparation for detachment. The unit was then sold to Tera Corporation on March 2, 2000. Tera Corporation later renamed into Cray Inc when the deal was closed on April 4, 2000.
External links
- http://www.cray.com/
- History
- Cray FAQ
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cray Research."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CRAFT | English | Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN | Computer - (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CRAY |
| Specialty definitions using "CRAY": Application Executive ♦ bogon filter ♦ cfortran.h, Cray instability, Cray Research, Inc. ♦ Haskell B, hosed ♦ NESL ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Seymour Cray, siod, supercomputer ♦ unicos, University of London Computing Centre. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CRAY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (ash, clay, pipe clay). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Cray supercomputer is located at FCRF, the Frederick Cancer Research Facility. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Cray 2 Supercomputer. Credit: NASA. |
 | Cray Y 190A Supercomputer. Credit: NASA. | ||
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| "Cray jump" by Bas V.d Eykhof Commentary: "One a dirt road in the middle of nowhere." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "CRAY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.65% of the time. "CRAY" is used about 202 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 84.65% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.89% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (common) | 2.97% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.99% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 202 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CRAY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cray | Last name | 1,000 | 9,722 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Cray Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CRAY": Cray instability ♦ Seymour Cray. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CRAY": cray-compatible, cray-equivalent, cray-l, cray-ymp, Cray-zee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
robert cray | 157 | jordan cray | 4 |
cray | 106 | computer cray sgi super | 3 |
cray fish | 29 | cray fish trap | 3 |
computer cray | 25 | cray robert strat | 3 |
robert cray band | 23 | cray x1 | 3 |
cray lyrics robert | 14 | 1 cray | 3 |
cray super computer | 14 | cray robert stratocaster | 3 |
cray in love | 14 | cray supercomputers | 3 |
cray inc | 12 | cray woman | 2 |
cray pas | 11 | cray foots kingdom united | 2 |
seymour cray | 11 | robert cray mp3 | 2 |
cray research | 9 | brother cray | 2 |
cray valley | 9 | cray discography robert | 2 |
robert cray tab | 8 | cray guitar robert tab | 2 |
cray devil may | 5 | cray music robert | 2 |
cray communication | 5 | cray in love lyrics | 2 |
david cray | 4 | band cray lyrics robert | 2 |
cray fish picture | 4 | cray st.mary | 2 |
2 cray | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CRAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | rapu (crawfish, crayfish), jokirapu (crawfish, cray fish, crayfish), jokiäyriäinen (crayfish). (various references) | |
French | écrevisse russe (cray fish), écrevisse de rivière (crawfish, cray fish). (various references) | |
Greek | καραβίδα ποταμίσια (crawfish, cray fish), καραβίδα λεπτοδάκτυλη (cray fish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aycray.(various references) | |
Russian | крэй. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CRAY": crayfish, crayfishes, crayola, crayolas, crayon, crayoned, crayoning, crayonist, crayonists, crayons. (additional references) | |
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"CRAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carday, cracy, Crai, Craib, Crak, Crays, Crda, crey, Crii, Curray, Khrayr, Kroy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: racy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-r-y" | |
-1 letter: arc, car, cay, cry, ray, rya, yar. | |
-2 letters: ar, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-r-y" | |
+1 letter: carny, carry, chary, clary, crazy, cymar, farcy, scary. | |
+2 letters: archly, cairny, calory, canary, carboy, carney, charry, coryza, crabby, cracky, crafty, craggy, cranky, cranny, crappy, crawly, crayon, creaky, creamy, creasy, croaky, curacy, cymars, myrica, piracy, racily, scarey, scarry. | |
+3 letters: acridly, acronym, acrylic, actuary, anarchy, archery, archway, ardency, barytic, branchy, caloyer, calvary, cannery, canonry, caraway, carboys, carneys, carnify, carroty, carryon, cattery, cautery, cavalry, chantry, charily, charity, charley, charpoy, ciliary, clarify, clarity, clayier, clearly, coryzal, coryzas, crackly, crankly, crassly, crayola, crayons, crazily, crybaby, cryptal, crystal, curably, cyprian, decayer, diarchy, dryadic, dyarchy, eparchy, errancy, exarchy, factory, hayrack, hayrick, hyraces, keycard, lactary, larceny, lyrical, myricas, nectary, peccary, piscary, preachy, prelacy, primacy, privacy, raceway, rackety, raucity, raunchy, recarry, rockaby, satyric, scarify, scarily, scraggy, scrappy, scrawly, scrawny, screaky, sectary, starchy, syncarp, tracery, treacly, truancy, unchary, uncrazy, vicarly, yachter. | |
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