Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!bradley From: bradley@im4u.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Cray-2 Overview, extracted from "Cray Channels" Message-ID: <388@im4u.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 18:10:10 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.388 Posted: Wed Aug 7 18:10:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:38:47 EDT References: <694@gatech.CSNET> <256@frog.UUCP> Reply-To: bradley@im4u.UUCP (David K. Bradley) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 17 > A pioneer in the use of liquid immersion cooling technology, > the CRAY-2 features a 256-million word [8 8-bit bytes to a word] > Common Memory, four independent processors and a 4.1 nanosecond > clock cycle -- all in a package just 45 inches tall and 53 inches > in diameter. The CRAY-2 delivers effective CPU speed six to twelve > times that of the CRAY-1 and runs an operating system based on > AT&T's widely accepted UNIX(tm) System V. Anybody know how much one of these things costs? And while we're at it, how much did one of those "old" CRAY-1's used to cost? :-) -- David K. Bradley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department, The University of Texas at Austin bradley@ut-sally.UUCP {ihnp4,harvard,gatech,ctvax,seismo}!ut-sally!bradley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------