Cray Computer & NSA To Develop Scalable Supercomputer 08/17/94

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

After all Crysler got it  djf




COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, U.S.A., 1994 AUG 17 (NB) -- Cray
Computer Corporation (NASDAQ: CRAY) and the National Security
Agency (NSA) have announced a joint development deal worth up to
$9.2 million to the financially pressed computer company to
produce a Cray-3 super-scalable computer system.


The Cray-3/SSS will be a hybrid system capable of vector parallel
processing, scalable parallel processing and a combination of
both. The system will consist of a dual processor 256 million word
Cray-3 and a 512,000 processor 128 million byte single instruction
multiple data (SIMD) array.