SSC CHSL 2019 PYQ — Question 40

Who among the following is called the 'father of supercomputing'?

Seymour Cray

Who is Seymour Cray?                 

• Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, 
• He founded Cray Research which built many of these machines.
• Seymour Cray built the iconic Cray-1 supercomputer and led the industry for decades.

Supercomputer:

• A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. 
• The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second instead of million instructions per second.