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Type

Physical Object

Title

Cray-2 CPU

Manufacturer

Cray Research, Inc. (CRI)

Date

1985

Place Manufactured

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

model number 2 Cray-2
other number 6345148DOE Property tag number

Dimensions

overall: 57 in x 58 in x 58 in

Description

"Kirby Fong at LBL is a good historical resource on this & LBL generally. (from NEWSLINE, April 4, 1990) The newest LLNL supercomputer has a theoretical peak speed of four billion floating point operations (or calculations) per second. Its memory is equal to 64 million words; that capacity will double to 128 million words within a few months, Fuss said.

Category

Digital Computer: supercomputer

Subject

CRAY-2 (Computer); Cray Research, Inc. (CRI); Fluorinert

Accession Number

X1630.99
 

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