How much is a cray ??
Steve Lamont
slamont at network.ucsd.edu
Tue Jun 4 05:52:10 AEST 1991
In article <MCCALPIN.91Jun3142209 at pereland.cms.udel.edu> mccalpin at perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
>I have never seen a technical summary of the models XMS or Y/MP-EL.
>
>What are their vital statistics?
>
>If the XMS is really X/MP compatible, then I guess all I need is the
>clock speed. If not, what is the maximum sustainable memory bandwidth
>from main memory to vector registers?
The XMS is the Supertek S-1 in Cray clothing. 40 nSec clock. Somewhere around
a quarter of a single X/MP head.
>Ditto for the YMP/EL.
Dunno about that one -- I had notes from the dog and pony CRI put on a few
weeks ago but can't seem to find them. About 1/4 of a Y/MP rings a bell but
I could be making that up. Cray-ons?
spl (the p stands for
probably comes with a
hand crank instead of
a bench seat...)
--
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