June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
21h 28m
English
There's an old story that “The people at Cray design their supercomputers with Apple systems, and the Apple designers use Crays!” Apart from this being a terrific example of recurring rotational serendipity (what goes around, comes around) is there any truth to it?
Like many urban legends, this one contains a nugget of truth. The 1991 Annual Report of Cray Research, Inc., contained a short article describing how Apple used a Cray for designing Macintosh cases. The Cray is used to simulate the injection molding of the plastic enclosure cases. The Mac II case was the first Apple system to benefit from the modeling, and the trial was successful. The simulation identified warping problems that were ...
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