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A Cray SuperComputer Comes To The University Of Toronto
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The Cray X-MP/22 manufactured by Cray Research Incorporated (CRI) of
Minneapolis, Minnesota was delivered and installed at the U of Toronto
this September. The Cray is a well respected computer - mainly for its
extremely fast rate of mathematical floating-pointcalculation. As the
university state ....
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The Cray can pipe information back and forth between the CPU memory and
the Input/Output Subsystem (IOS). The IOS then takes it upon itself the
store the information in any of the four storage devices: i) one of the
four 1200 Mb disk drives (at a rate of 5.9Mb every second), ii) one of two
standard 200ips 6250bpi tape drives, iii) a Solid State Storage Device
(SSD) (which is much like a 128Mb RAM Disk!), or iv) through to a front-
end computer (the U of T uses both the IBM4381 and a .... |
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