To be sure, he took little interest in marketing, beyond the circle of personal friends whom he regarded as collaborators rather than customers. He had the utmost faith in his products, and he was confident that their excellence was sufficient eloquence. In supercomputing, other ways to achieve exceptionally high performance began to equal, and then to surpass, the architectural philosophies that Seymour Cray believed in. Nevertheless, his computational watchwords of simplicity, balance, and efficient memory management remain as sound today as at the beginning of Seymour Cray's lustrous career. Systems with performance in the hundreds of gigaflops are becoming routine.
Teraflop performance is now a realistic and imminent goal.
Equally important, products capable of several gigaflops are becoming available at prices less than the pricetag on a well-equipped family sedan. Yet all of those responsible for these modern marvels must acknowledge that they are building upon the rich testament of an extraordinary man. In death as in life, Seymour Cray is supercomputing.