[rescue] cray sx-6

[Dave McGuire]

On October 9, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Cray recently annouced that they will be rebranding the NEC SX-6.  Now,
> from what I can find, the SX-6 is a vector machine, like the SV-2 (also
> from Cray).  Does anyone have any idea why it makes sense to be pushing a

  Hmm, I wonder what they have up their sleeve...

> competing vector machine next to your own?  Some people (who probably
> don't know anything) are saying it indicates the death of the US
> supercomputer market, although I couldn't have said that Japan had any
> more of a market than we do.

  Heh...people have been saying that after every Cray press release, no
matter what it says, for the past fifteen years...and they're still
selling supercomputers.  I think it's PeeCee propaganda.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD