mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Asher Weissman) (11/18/87)
A friend of mine has access to a Cray for five minutes a week (Don't ask how, it's a long story). The Cray belongs to Westinghouse (XMP/4 I think). I am interested in the product that Apple created for their Cray XMP, which I believe was call the CRAY FINDER. Does anyone have information about it, how it interfaces to a Cray (We plan to hook up to it through ARPA Net). THANKS - Miles Weissman mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu "PS/2: yesterday's hardware today; OS/2 today's software tomorrow" - A person who noticed ---------------------------------------------------------- Carnegie-Mellon University -> Computer Engineering 412 - 268 - 4287 5115 Margaret Morrison Street Box 712 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
paulsen@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP (11/21/87)
The Cray Finder is not a product created by Apple to access their cray. The Cray Finder is an ongoing (very long term) project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. It is designed to allow users to use a cray much as they would anything else on their desktop. Although the Cray Finder is not available, we do provide a program for telnet access to any machine which talks tcp/ip. It is called NCSA Telnet. For more information on this product and or the Center, I can be contacted as gaige@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
gengler@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/23/87)
Uhm, sounds like CDC's product for the mac... DESKTOP/VE I think it is called? They wanted to make the Cyber environment similar to one that people are already acquainted with (namely the Mac). They claim to be working on a similar one for the IBM PC (will it be using MS/Windows?) Ken
STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) (11/28/87)
Seems to me, that I saw an article about Apple having developed at development system, and possibly a version of the Finder that ran on the Cray. It was in some pamphlet that gets sent to educators, I think. It may have been a joke. The development system was reported to have compile times in the millisecond range, and if you thought a Mac Plus, HD20, and MPW was expensive, this baby was $12,500,000 (Cray included)!