cray /kray/ n.
1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers
designed by Cray Research. 2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The
canonical number-crunching machine.
The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray,
a noted computer architect and co-founder of the company.
Numerous vivid legends surround him, some true and some
admittedly invented by Cray Research brass to shape their
corporate culture and image.