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Subject: Re: hardware of Cray Blitz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:02:07 06/13/99

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On June 13, 1999 at 16:55:56, leonid wrote:

>On June 13, 1999 at 16:05:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>On June 13, 1999 at 14:48:49, leonid wrote:
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>>>What was the hardware of Cray Blitz in 1983?
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>>A dual processor Cray-XMP with 1M words of memory (8 Mbytes).  We were
>>searching about 20-30K nodes per second back then, when the micros were
>>doing only a couple of hundred nodes per second...
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>>Bob
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>And what ever happened to this computer? Was there some try
>(after more that successful 83-89 period) to go ahead with the project?


Cray/SGI still ship the machines (newer/faster versions).  Cray Blitz last
played in 1995 at the ACM (last) event held that year...

Crafty replaced it...



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