BILLW@SU-SCORE.arpa (07/15/86)
Since someone mentioned that the cray 3 was 'smaller than an
IBM PC', I thought Id forward the following data:
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Date: Fri 27 Jun 86 19:06:35-PDT
From: William "Chops" Westfield <BILLW@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: technology watch: the Cray 3.
From 23-Jun-86 "Electronics" magazine....
"Cray Research Inc intends to drop its traditional labor-intensive
approach to building supercomputers in favor of automation. ...
Instead of humans hooking up the rat's nest of wires inside the machines,
specialized robots built to Cray design will handle a variety of
Cray-3 manufacturing jobs, ranging from the dicing of the gallium
arsenide wafers into the custom GaAs chips to be used in the system
to the actual wire interconnection. Prompting the move is the extreme
miniturization of the machine: A FULL-BLOWN 16-PROCESSOR CRAY-3 SYSTEM
WITH 64 MEMORY MODULES WILL BE PACKED INTO LESS THAN ONE CUBIC FOOT
OF SPACE, excluding power supply. No wire in the Cray-3 will be
longer than 3 in. ... The Cray-3, when delivered in 1988 or 1989,
is expected to exceed by 10 times the performance of the current-
generation Cray-2, which has a peak rating of 1.2 billion floating-
point operations/s."
(emphasis added) one cubic foot, huh? holy expletive!
BillW
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