{"id":4770,"date":"2009-05-13T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2009-05-13T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:12:50","slug":"also-packard-to-lease-space-on-daytons-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"Also: Packard To Lease Space On Dayton&#8217;s Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul is looking to bring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/east\/44843902.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUI\"><em>Cray Supercomputer <\/em>to downtown<\/a> Saint Paul?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority will vote Wednesday on whether to approve a $400,000 forgivable loan for Cray Inc. to move into a downtown building.<\/p>\n<p>Cray, a global supercomputer company based in Seattle, is considering moving about 200 employees from its Mendota Heights operation to 48,000 square feet of space in Galtier Plaza, 380 Jackson St.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand I, who used to be a contractor at Cray, am just a little surprised that Cray still exists (and that it&#8217;s based in Seattle), and that it still employs 20, much less 200 people.\u00a0 I know there&#8217;s still a market for &#8220;supercomputers&#8221; in doing fluid dynamics and other really large-scale number-crunching applications, but I&#8217;d sort of thought that massively-parallel Unix and Linux distributed networks had eaten up the whole market.<\/p>\n<p>Well, most of it; when I worked at Cray, it occupied an entire complex out on Lone Oak Road (it&#8217;s now an R&#038;D facility for Ecolab) and was overflowing even that. \u00a0 Then Silicon Graphics bought the place, and we know how that turned out, judging by how many Silicon Graphics computers you see out there anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Crayons are a pretty tightly-knit clicque\u00a0 Ex-Crayons have had <a href=\"http:\/\/excray.com\/\">their own website <\/a>ever since Cray started shredding jobs in the mid-nineties. And while I was the lowliest contractor in the whole building (a tech writer doing a business plan for the Software Division), I still have some sentiment for the place; it was there, having been a tech writer for a year and already bored out of my mind with the field, that I first encountered Usability and User-Centered Design; it took four years of reading and self-study, but it was the first step in getting to my current career.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; glad to see &#8217;em coming downtown. Hope they avoid the fate of <em>every other entity that has ever taken up shop <\/em>at Galtier&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul is looking to bring&#8230; &#8230;Cray Supercomputer to downtown Saint Paul? The St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority will vote Wednesday on whether to approve a $400,000 forgivable loan for Cray Inc. to move into a downtown building. Cray, a global supercomputer company based in Seattle, is considering moving about 200 employees from its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}