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Name:

Cray Super Computer

Date:

1984

Item Number:

89.27.01

Donor:

Cray Research Corp.

Type:

Model 1-M/2300

 

Manufacturer:

 

 

Cray Research Corp.

Description:

This Supercomputer was first installed in February 1984 at Phillips Petroleum Co. It had 16 megabytes of main memory and 8 I/O channels. The CPU speed was 240 million floating point operations per second. The machine cycle time was 11 nanoseconds. It was freon cooled and weighed approximately 5 tons due to the circuitry mounted on copper plates.
















 

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