Cray-4

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The Cray-4 is a supercomputer that was designed by the American company Cray , under the direction of Seymour Cray , but which was killed in a car accident before the work was completed. The Cray-4 is the evolution of the commercial failure Cray-3 , a supercomputer with gallium arsenide circuits. The supercomputer introduced in 1994 is based on a vector processor with shared memory .

A standard system with 16 processors and 1,024 megaword (8 GiByte) memory, which performed 32 gigaflops , was offered in 1995 for 11 million USD.

Individual evidence

  1. CRAY COMPUTER CORPORATION'S PRICE / PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP REAFFIRMED BY COMPETITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ( English ) SEC Info. Retrieved March 10, 2010.