Russell, R. M. (1978). The CRAY-1 Computer System. Communications of the ACM, 21(1), 63–72.

The CRAY-1 was a highly successful supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray in the 1970s. The vector processor design that underpinned it and its successors radically outperformed competitors until the 1990s. Cray Research expected to sell a dozen machines when they brought it to market, and priced them accordingly. They ended up selling over 80 units for more than $5M each.

The article that situates a description of the technology and evolution of CRAY-1 in computer science literature was authored by Richard M. Russell, whose responsibility at Cray Research was marketing and sales.

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