dewa@ur-univax.UUCP (06/13/85)
<< hackem muchem >> 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]