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IP: CRAY UNVEILS TERAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:38:36 -0500
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)
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