The Cray X-MP was a supercomputer designed, built and sold by Cray Research. It was announced in 1982 as the "cleaned up" successor to the 1975 Cray-1,...
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replacing the Cray X-MP in that spot. It was, in turn, replaced in that spot by the Cray Y-MP in 1988. The Cray-2 was the first of Seymour Cray's designs to...
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designer Steve Chen and the Cray X-MP. After Chen's departure, the Cray Y-MP, Cray C90 and Cray T90 were developed on the original Cray-1 architecture but achieved...
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The Cray Y-MP was a supercomputer sold by Cray Research from 1988, and the successor to the company's X-MP. The Y-MP retained software compatibility with...
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The Cray Operating System (COS) is a Cray Research operating system for its now-discontinued Cray-1 (1976) and Cray X-MP supercomputers. It succeeded the...
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160 MFLOPS Cray-1 was succeeded in 1982 by the 800 MFLOPS Cray X-MP, the first Cray multi-processing computer. In 1985, the very advanced Cray-2, capable...
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on the Cray-2, other teams delivered the two-processor Cray X-MP, which was another huge success and later the four-processor X-MP. When the Cray-2 was...
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UNICOS (redirect from Cray Linux Environment)
on a Cray X-MP in 1984 before the Cray-2 port. It was used to demonstrate the feasibility of using Unix on a supercomputer system, before Cray-2 hardware...
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The Cray Time Sharing System, also known in the Cray user community as CTSS, was developed as an operating system for the Cray-1 or Cray X-MP line of...
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Look up XMP in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. XMP may refer to: Cray X-MP, a supercomputer Extensible Metadata Platform, an ISO standard for the creation...
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the squash and stretch style. It was rendered on a Cray X-MP/2 and a Cray X-MP/4 supercomputer at Cray Research's computer center in Mendota Heights, Minnesota...
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ARCHITECTURES, T. Bloch, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1978 "Company History". Cray. Archived from the original on 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2020-02-29. "PDS: The...
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ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4327045. "Largest Known Prime Number Discovered on Cray Research Supercomputer". PR Newswire. 10 January 1994. Archived from the...
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memory references which would otherwise reduce computational speed. The Cray X-MP (designed by Steve Chen) was released in 1982 as a 105 MHz shared-memory...
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ran production from about 1985 until 1994 on Cray computers including the Cray-1, Cray X-MP, and Cray Y-MP models. The NLTSS operating system was unusual...
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Steve Chen (computer engineer) (category Cray employees)
designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in September 1987 after it dropped the MP line. With IBM's...
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Language" from the Unix dictionary /usr/dict/words. Versions exist for the Cray X-MP, Y-MP, 2; Sequent, Encore Alliant, DEC DEC VAX-11/784, dataflow architectures...
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Unit) - 160 MFLOPS Cray X-MP 1983–1985 713 megaflops Cray X-MP/4 Cray Research Steve Chen 1982 - US$15 million 2.62 m (8.6 ft) x 1.96 m (6.4 ft) 5.12...
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network. The PARAM 8000 was noted to be 28 times more powerful than the Cray X-MP that the government originally requested, for the same $10 million cost...
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December 1986. In 1987, the Indian government had requested to purchase a Cray X-MP supercomputer; this request was denied by the United States government...
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microprocessor at 50 MHz, 1989 86×106: Cray 1 supercomputer, 1978 100×106: Pentium (i586) microprocessor, 1993 400×106: Cray X-MP, 1982 1×109: ILLIAC IV 1972 supercomputer...
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made by Triple-I for Tron; Digital Productions became famous for using a Cray X-MP supercomputer to render their animations. The company referred to its...
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The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer, Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2. The system was one of the first major applications of gallium...
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ten. The encoding scheme stores the sign, the exponent (in base two for Cray and VAX, base two or ten for IEEE floating point formats, and base 16 for...
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graphics for the film were rendered by Digital Productions (DP) on a Cray X-MP supercomputer. The company created 27 minutes of effects for the film...
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the film Jurassic Park in the control room for the island (instead of a Cray X-MP supercomputer as in the novel). Two banks, one bank of 4 Units and a single...
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Cray X-MP with a CMOS re-implementation of the X-MP processor architecture, and a VMEbus-based Input/Output Subsystem (IOS). The XMS could run Cray's...
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with the distribution of spacings of GUE random matrix eigenvalues using Cray X-MP. In 1987 he reported the calculations in the paper Andrew Odlyzko (1987)...
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Cray continued to be the performance leader, continually beating the competition with a series of machines that led to the Cray-2, Cray X-MP and Cray...
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Angeles, which was one of the few companies in the United States to have a Cray X-MP supercomputer, which was the world's most powerful computer from 1983–85...
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