[rescue] what are these Cray thingies worth?

[Dave McGuire]

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.

  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.

  This is a very large machine.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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