The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray as the successor to the Cray-2. Its goal was about 16 GFLOPS, roughly twelve times the Cray-2, to be reached through gallium arsenide logic chips, more processors and very tight packaging that kept every wire within about one foot. Work began at Cray Research in 1988 and the effort moved to Colorado Springs, then was spun off in 1989 as Cray Computer Corporation. The launch customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cancelled its order in 1991, and the first machine, called Graywolf, was loaned to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1993 with four processors and 128 megawords of memory. Static RAM problems and a square root bug troubled it, and the company went bankrupt in 1995, when the machine was decommissioned. Only this one production system was delivered, and it was Seymour Cray's last completed design.
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The first machine was finally ready in 1993
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NCAR's machine was officially decommissioned the next day.
In Group: Cray Research and Control Data Vector Supercomputers, Lead paragraph [in-group]
The Cray-3 is a vector supercomputer, which was Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2.
In Field: Computer Architecture, Architecture
The Cray-3 system architecture comprised a foreground processing system, up to 16 background processors and up to 2 gigawords (16 GB) of common memory.
Invented: Seymour Cray, Background
Seymour Cray began the design of the Cray-3 in 1985, as soon as the Cray-2 reached production.
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