A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine such as a Cray. Generally more subtle than bugs that can be detected in smaller problems running on a workstation or minicomputer.
(1994-10-13)
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/kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a killer micro.
(1994-10-13)
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<publication> A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards.
See also Orange Book.
(1996-12-03)
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1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.
2. A computron that participates only in number crunching.
3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
(1994-10-13)
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<company> US manufacturer of large powerful mainframe supercomputers, co-founded by noted computer architect, Seymour Cray.
Quarterly sales $216M, profits $8M (Aug 1994).
Cray were bought by Silicon Graphics, Inc..
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(1999-10-19)
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