Cray to Use DEC Chip in New Line of Computers
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PARIS — Cray Research Inc., the world’s largest supercomputer maker, said Wednesday that it will use a computer chip from Digital Equipment Corp. to power the new-generation machines it plans to roll out next year.
Chairman John Rollwagen said Cray will use Digital’s Alpha chip in a radically new line of supercomputers called massively parallel processors.
Rollwagen called Digital’s chip the fastest in the world.
Cray Research shares jumped $2.125 to $46.50 in New York Stock Exchange trading. Digital was up $2.25 to $59.125 a share.
Massively parallel computers are the latest effort by the world’s supercomputer makers to reach the much sought-after tera-flop speed--a trillion calculations per second.
The most commonly used chips in the few massively parallel supercomputers currently available are Sun Microsystems Inc.’s SPARC and Intel Corp.’s i860.
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