IP: CRAY UNVEILS TERAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

from edupage
Silicon Graphic's Cray Research unit has unveiled its new CRAY T3E-900
supercomputer capable of performing a trillion calculations per second,
becoming the first company to bring a teraflop system to market.  Shipments
will begin in Spring 1997, with prices starting at $500,000.  Cray
anticipates selling the super-fast systems to oil companies and other
exploratory concerns, which could use the machine's power to map and analyze
sites to find oil and minerals for extracting.  The new machines can handle
in just a few days calculations that it would take less powerful systems up
to three months to process.  (New York Times 12 Nov 96 A18)