lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) (05/17/91)
The press reports that the Convex C3 is out, and that the high-end model is an air-cooled GaAs machine. Would anyone from Convex like to post some details? -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) (05/17/91)
>On 16 May 91 21:42:13 GMT, lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) said:
Donald> The press reports that the Convex C3 is out, and that the high-end
Donald> model is an air-cooled GaAs machine.
Donald> Would anyone from Convex like to post some details?
Well, I'm not from Convex, but here is what I have gleaned from the
press releases....
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C3200 series --- 1-4 processors -- 25 MHz clock.
200 MFLOPS peak performance (64-bit or 32-bit).
This product is essentially the same as the
old C200 series except that it has been
redesigned to make use of the new fabrication
techniques developed for the C3 series.
The entry level price has dropped from
~$600,000 to $350,000.
C3400 series --- 1-8 processors --- 50 MHz clock
800 MFLOPS peak performance (32-bit)
400 MFLOPS peak performance (64-bit)
This product is the slow version of the new
cpu. Unlike the C200 series (and apparently
the C3200 series), these new machines run
at double-speed on 32-bit floating-point
numbers. Note that the vector pipe only runs
at 50 MHz for 32-bit operands --- for 64-bit
operands, it runs at the same rate as the
C3200 series (and old C200's).
C3800 series --- 1-8 processors --- 60 MHz clock
1920 MFLOPS peak performance (32-bit)
960 MFLOPS peak performance (64-bit)
This is their new flagship, implemented in
Gallium Arsenide technology. Price is
$2 million to $8 million. Two machines
(4 processors each) have already been sold
to German and Danish Meteorological centers.
--
John D. McCalpin mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu
Assistant Professor mccalpin@brahms.udel.edu
College of Marine Studies, U. Del. J.MCCALPIN/OMNET