Cray X-MP
Supercomputer manufactured by Cray Research / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, and was the world's fastest computer from 1983 to 1985 with a quad-processor system performance of 800 MFLOPS.[4] The principal designer was Steve Chen.
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Design | |
Manufacturer | Cray Research |
Designer | Steve Chen |
Release date | 1982 (1982) |
Price | $15 million[1] |
Casing | |
Dimensions | 2.62 m (8.6 ft) x 1.96 m (6.4 ft) |
Weight | 5.12 t (11,300 lb)[2] |
Power | 345 kW[3] |
System | |
Front-end | Most minicomputers of the time |
Operating system | COS, UNICOS |
CPU | 4x Vector processor 64 bits @ 105 - 117 MHz |
Memory | 128 megabytes |
Storage | 38.4 gigabytes (32 disks) |
MIPS | 400 MIPS (4 CPU) |
FLOPS | 800 MFLOPS (4 CPU) |
Predecessor | Cray-1 |
Successor | Cray Y-MP |
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