[rescue] what are these Cray thingies worth?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:55:38PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 24, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > basic specs I got from someone that wants to sell these
> > > 
> > > C-94 (purchased and installed May, 1994)
> > >   a.. 4 Processors
> > >   b.. Vector Machine
> > >   c.. 128 Megaword (16-bit) memory
> > 
> > That would be a fun box.  But, I didn't think it was a 16 bit machine.  I 
> > thought that all the YMPs (it is a YMP, isn't it?) were 64bit.
> 
>   There are no 16-bit Crays.  This is a 64-bit machine with 64-bit-wide
> memory.  The "C94" is a YMP-C90, the very biggest and fastest of the
> Crays until the [fairly recent] T90 came out.  It cranks 1 GFLOPS per
> proc sustained and is liquid cooled.

I didn't think there were 16bit Crays, but I wasn't positive, and so I thought
I'd limit my statement to something I could say a bit more authoritatively.

Are the T3s unrelated to the T90s then?
 
>   It's also highly unlikely that it has 128MW of RAM...that'd be very
> small for this model, and I don't think that amount is even possible.

128mw, that's a gig of ram in this case, isn't it?  

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Joshua D. Boyd