Nobody but Us: A History of Cray Research's Software and the Building of the World's Fastest Supercomputer

Edward W. Barnard

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction

The First Invisible Battlefield (Radio Intelligence)

The Human Cost of Staying First
The Pattern Creators
Decoding the Bootleggers
Decoding the Naval Disarmament Conference
- Vice Admiral Kamimura Hikonojō
- Russian Pacific Fleet Depredations
- First Wartime Radio Traffic Analysis
- Fourteen Points to Port and Annihilate
- Arms Race
- Age of Sail
- Pre-Dreadnaught Battleships
- Two-Ocean Navy
- Washington Naval Conference
- Teapot Dome
- Strategic Imperative
- Summary
Flying Against the Imperial Japanese Navy
Was Location “AF” Midway, or the Aleutian Islands?
Hedy Lamarr, the Mother of WiFi
- Spread Spectrum
- The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- Barbara La Marr
- Hollywood
- Fritz Mandl
- Waves
- Player Piano
- Summary

The Wizard’s Approach to Pattern Recognition

Profile of the “Real Programmer”
Think Like a Computer
The Basics With a Side of Crypto
Design an Algorithm in Your Head
What Can the NSA Teach Us About Debugging?
Problem in a Box
Vacuum Tube Blackjack
- What This Deep Dive Teaches
- Early Computing
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Epic Folklore
- LGP-30 Programming
- Summary
Running the Numbers
- Porting Blackjack
- User Guide
- ROAR
- Infinite Loop
- Problem Analysis
- Problem in a Box
- Reflecting
- Beyond Blackjack
- Computing History Archives
- Warming Up the LGP-30
- When It Fits
- Summary
Transcendent Patterns

The Second Invisible Battlefield (Nuclear Deterrence)

The Kiev Computer
- A Note on Source Material
- Finding the Right Viewpoint
- The Kiev Computer
- Comparing to CDC 6600 (1964)
- Floating Point and Simulation
- Cost Per FLOP
- Blocks
- Polish Notation
- Institute in Physics and Computers
- First Principles
- Additional Reading
- Summary
Project Whirlwind
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
- The Forgotten Best Seller
- Bug Collectors
- Around the World Nonstop
- George Valley
- Whirlwind
- Whirlwind II and IBM 701
- Production Model
- Lorenz Center
- Margaret Hamilton
- Send Man to the Moon
- Summary
Engineering Research Associates
Control Data Corporation
Cray Research
My First CRAY-1
Big Iron

Legacy of the Invisible Battlefield

Software Development
My NSA Mug Shot
It Was Nothing, They Said
Ducky Day
- The Cray Style
- Octal
- Storytelling
- Summary
The Transitive Property of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
The Veil
Oil Across the Water
- Revisionist History
- Grapevine
- Standard Oil
- The Relationship
- Video and References
- Summary
Desert Shield

The Invisible Battlefield Develops Mastery

Remembering “Scuzzy”
Gate Keeping
Imposter Syndrome
The Road Less Traveled
The Wizard’s Mirror

Teaching Rocket Science

The Search for Scientists
- Science as Plunder
- Forced Labor
- IG Farben Company
- IG Farben Auschwitz
- The Osenberg List
Lady of the Lake Discovers Bomb Test
Camelot, the German Rocket Scientists at Peenemünde
Mittelwerk Extermination
Sputnik Satellite Becomes Defense Priority

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Vacuum Tube Blackjack
What This Deep Dive Teaches
Early Computing
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Epic Folklore
LGP-30 Programming
Summary