[net.unix] UNIX SV reaches high places!

dewa@ur-univax.UUCP (06/13/85)

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Q:  What is common between the AT&T 7300 and CRAY II?
A:  They both run Unix SV.

Q:  What is common between your auto and the CRAYII?
A:  They both are liquid cooled.

The following is excerpted from Computerworld without permission:

    -  announced last week
    -  runs UNIX SV with minor modifications to speed up i/o
    -  two already exist: one with Lawrence Livermore Labs and
       the other with CRAY Research.
    -  supports C and vector FORTRAN
    -  is equivalent to five CRAY I's
    -  is liquid cooled with Flourinert, a inert flourocarbon manufactured
       by 3M

 I hope it gladdens your heart, like it did mine to see UNIX reach high
 places!!


		      Rajiv
		      dewa@ur-univax

joemu@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Joe Mueller) (06/19/85)

[eat me]

I saw a demo of the CRAYII while I was in Minneapolis. The computer itself is
fairly small (about 3-4 feet tall and about 3 feet wide). It is cylindrical
in shape (similar to the CRAYI) but without the padded "seat" around it.
I don't remember a whole lot about it but here's what I remember:
	1. it was a giga-flop machine
	2. it was running System V (boy did those ps's run fast!)
	3. the flourocarbon used was the same stuff doctors use for synthetic
	   blood
	4. I believe they said it had a 4-5 nanosecond clock rate and because
	   of it they have to have all internal wires shorter than 9 inches
	5. I sucks down 190 killowats of power
	6. They consider their "C" compiler slow, they are working on
	   increasing it's performance (I think they said it "only" compiled
	   100k to 150k lines of code per minute) [I could live with that]