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- From: cps@fir35.cray.com ( Colin :)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- Subject: The latest from CRAY...
- Keywords: computer, smirk
- Date: 19 Aug 90 10:30:03 GMT
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- I found this floating around here at CRAY Reasearch.
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- Minn. (UPI) - Analysts for the long-awaited,
- and much-heralded CRAY-7 SuperSuperSuperComputer
- met today in Minneapolis to discuss telecommunica-
- tion issues for the new machine. The CRAY-7,
- scheduled for delivery early next year, features a
- 6.5 psec(picosecond) cycle time on each of its
- 4096 processors, which share a 64 Kbank memory,
- each bank to hold 256 Gigawords of 128 bits each.
- CRAY Research has announced that the CRAY-7 will
- be cooled by submerging the entire 2.4 cubic inch
- spherical mainframe in the ice-moon Io, off the
- southern coast of Saturn. When operational under
- the MULTI-CUE(TM) Operating System, the CRAY-7
- will simultaneously support interactive access for
- every man woman and child on Earth with guaranteed
- response time of 14.5 msec(microsecond) or better,
- while running real work on its 4094 background
- processors. Power for the new system will be ob-
- tained by running a drop cord from Io to well in-
- side the orbit of Mercury, where the intensity if
- the Solar flares can be converted to HyperElectri-
- city. The Rings of Saturn will act as a secondary
- storage device (a.k.a. Rotating Mass Storage) for
- the CRAY-7.
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- It is reported that much of the CRAY-7 CPU-
- time will be devoted to the design of the CRAY-10.
-