Cray-3
Sign in to savethumb|right| Seymour Cray stands behind a Cray-3 processor tank. The CPU occupies only the top of the tank, the rest contains memory and power supplies.
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- History
- Background
- Development
- Architecture
- Logical design
- CPU design
- Mechanical design
- System configurations
- Software
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right| Seymour Cray stands behind a Cray-3 processor tank. The CPU occupies only the top of the tank, the rest contains memory and power supplies.
The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer, Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2. The system was one of the first major applications of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors in computing, using hundreds of custom built ICs packed into a CPU. The design goal was performance around 16 GFLOPS, about 12 times that of the Cray-2.
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