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The final moments of ouray

Suspense mounts as SCD completes the last bit of system administration necessary to decommission ouray, a parallel vector processor that served the NCAR community from 12 May 1997 to 30 November 2001.

Back row, left to right: Tom Engel, high-performance computing specialist in the SCD Director's Office; Gene Harano, manager of the High-Performance Systems Section; Bernie O'Lear, associate director of SCD; George Fuentes, head of the Supercomputer Systems Group; and John Merrill, head of the Mass Storage System Group. Front: Gene Schumacher, former head of the Supercomputer Systems Group, and Al Kellie, director of SCD.

Ouray was the seventh J90se system shipped by Cray Research, and the first one shipped by with the Cray GigaRing(TM)-based I/O subsystem. It was named for Chief Ouray of the Tabeguache band of the Southern Ute Tribe (see http://www.southern-ute.nsn.us/history/ouray.html). The second Cray J90se at NCAR, installed in March 1998, was named after Chief Ouray's wife, Chipeta.

Photo: Brian Bevirt/SCD