The high-level parallel supercomputer development project at Cray Research Inc has been abandoned, but the design team, led by Steve Chen, plan to set up their own company to complete the project and bring the machine, dubbed the Y-MP, to market in the early 1990s. Cray says that the project was one of two for […]
The high-level parallel supercomputer development project at Cray Research Inc has been abandoned, but the design team, led by Steve Chen, plan to set up their own company to complete the project and bring the machine, dubbed the Y-MP, to market in the early 1990s. Cray says that the project was one of two for the same time-frame, and that it has been abandoned because it had ex-panded to the point where it had gone beyond our original vision, and no longer meets the objectives or the style of Cray Research. Chen designed the Cray X-MP, and the Y-MP was to have offered 12 times the performance of the Cray 3 – but fit in a shoebox (CI No 556).
