Ken wrote in message <36CB1081.95E930BD@pacbell.net>...
>
>Concerning the Cray Y-MP * Is this the model number for the latest
incarnation
>of the Cray line ? I think I heard recently that the original company that
>founded the Cray computer line disolved and was bought by a recognized
computer manufacturer. The
>current methods of manufacturing this last model are so far
>removed from the original design and purpose that the "Cray" name on the
outside
>of the box is more for name recognition than any real relationship to it's
>former self.
>
>Is this - True ?
> Or
>Is this - False ?
>
>--
>Ken Tyler

Beats me.  I looked in the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records for fastest
computer and it lists the Cray Y-MP C-90.  But then again, it lists the 300
MHz Alpha as the fastest CPU, so who knows what's fastest today.  The
supercomputing speed record went to 2 linked Intel Paragon
parallel-processing machines with a total of 6768 processors, which achieved
328 gigaflops.  Anybody up to porting POV to that machine???

Eric

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"Back in the days when I was a Marxist, my primary concern was that ordinary
people deserved better and that elites were walking all over them. That is
still my primary concern, but the passing decades have taught me that
political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the
market elites could ever get away with doing."  --    Thomas Sowell.
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