Cray had always resisted the massively parallel solution to high-speed computing, offering a variety of reasons that it would never work as well as one very fast processor. He famously quipped If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?


Seems as though Cray was old school and saw something everyone else didn't see. His belief of concentrating on maximizing dual processors was probably the better route to take. Instead of hitting 1 petaflop in 06' we probably would have been much faster by now with his mentality of focusing on the system as a whole instead of just the fucking CPU.