General Session Honey, I Flew the CRAY Candace Culhane From 1994 to 1999, the Department of Defense has supported multiple R&D contracts with Cray Research and SGI, all in support of the goal of demonstrating a supercomputer capable of operating in mobile environments. These research efforts included the application of new thermal management and packaging technologies to acheive miniaturization of a standard Cray product, the J90 vector supercomputer. The research prototype SOLITAIRE and its host system was designed, built and tested. Companion programs were targeted at further developing spray cooling technologies and investigating the design space for ruggedized versions of the Scalable Node (SN) and Scalable Vector (SV) product lines. This talk will summarize the research programs, the experiences encountered along the way, successes and lessons learned, and what the future outlook for ruggedized high performance computers is. A highlight of the talk will be the recounting of the successful Jan 99 flight test of an alternate ruggedized version of the Cray J90. Table of Contents | Author Index | CUG Home Page | Home (Title Page)