On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
> > Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
> Another place besides the American History museum is
> the Crypto Museum near Ft Meade, http://www.nsa.gov/museum/
Back from DC;
Thanks to Andrew Bessen for this hint. The Cryptology Museum has a Cray
XMP and a YMP, plus a twin-rack Connection Machine 5. The YMP and CM-5 are
both running (The CM-5 has it's idle blinkin lights happily going nuts,
while the YMP sits in a halted state due to a CPU fault).
This is the first time I've ever seen a Cray in person, and after a bit of
wheedling with one of the caretakers (Who could care less who I was or
what I wanted as long as I wasn't going to bother him), I was allowed to
take panels off and take pictures of the insides.
I even have a little video with my digital camera of the CM-5's lights
happily churning away.
Alas, because of the cramped quarters it's somewhat hard to really climb
into the YMP as I'd like to, but that's ok. Highlight of my trip, I'm sad
to say.
Thanks again;
Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 17:35:55 BST