From itumeztr@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr Tue Mar 4 11:38:04 1997 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:32:25 +0200 (EET) From: ITU Mezunlari Dernegi Haber Dagitim Merkezi To: ** ITUMD ** ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI MEZUNLARI DERNEGI ULUSLARARASI KURULUSU Subject: Cray Research Introduces Smaller Versions of C90 System (fwd) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ To: ITU Alumni Scattered All Around The World _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Cray Research Introduces Smaller Versions of C90 System ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eagan, Minn. -- Cray Research Inc. further expanded its growing product line Tuesday with the announcement of smaller, lower-priced versions of its Cray Y-MP C90 supercomputer -- including the first air-cooled models in the C90 line. Cray said the 16-processor Y-MP C90, introduced in November 1991 at a list price of $30.5 million, is being renamed the C916, thus dropping the "Y-MP" designation. The company has added new versions to the C90 line that include one to eight processors, with list prices starting at $3.25 million in the U.S. Lester T. Davis, chief operating officer of Cray Research, said the company will continue to sell its Y-MP systems to accommodate users looking for a supercomputer at less than $3 million. He said the C916's performance created strong customer demand for smaller versions of the system; a Cray Japan spokeswoman said demand from Japanese commercial users led to the development of the smaller machines. Cray has booked five orders for the smaller systems, and is in active discussions with more than a dozen additional prospects worldwide, Davis said. The Cray C916 is now available with up to one gigaword of central memory, which Cray said is the largest high-speed memory on any supercomputer today and four times the system's previous memory capacity. Additionally, the smaller systems in the new series offer up to twice the memory capacity of their counterparts in the earlier Y-MP line. "In 1992, the Cray C916's first year in the market, we had to boost production goals to keep pace with orders," said Davis. "Our order book for this system is also getting full for 1993." To date, he said, the company has received 16 orders for its top-of-the- line supercomputer and has shipped 11 of the systems to government, academic and commercial customers. Ford Motor Co. was the first commercial customer to order the C916, Cray said. The expanded C90 line now includes: * The Cray C92A supercomputer system, an air-cooled model available with one or two processors, at list prices starting at $31.25 million. With no special cooling arrangements or motor-generator set, and utilizing 50/60Hz commercial electrical power, the system can be installed virtually anywhere, Cray claimed, including on ships and at remote processing sites. * The Cray C94A, an air-cooled system available with two to four processors and with the same power and cooling features as the C92A. * The Cray C94, a liquid-cooled supercomputer offered with two to four processors. * The Cray C98, a liquid-cooled system offered with four to eight processors. * The Cray C916, also liquid-cooled, available with eight to 16 processors. More than 600 leading software applications currently available on the Cray C916 and Cray Y-MP systems will run without modification on the new series of systems, according to Sara Graffunder, Cray Research director of applications. "The C90 series is the most advanced, usable high-performance computing technology available today," Graffunder said. Cray said the T3D system, the company's first MPP system due out later this year, will closely couple Digital Alpha microprocessor technology with Cray's vector-parallel systems, including any of the C90 series systems. **************************************************************************