The naming scheme of Cray X-MP

[Martin Fouts]

>>>>> On 27 Feb 91 23:32:44 GMT, dre at sequoia.cray.com (Dennis Ellis) said:

>Please send this info to me as well. Thanks.
>I assume the numbers have something to do with the numbers of banks and/or
>cpus.
>
>Mike McAllister
>mrmca at tramp.colorado.edu

Dennis>   Close. The first number is the number of CPUs (1 to 4). The
Dennis> second number is the amount of memory in megaWORDS (1 word = 8 bytes).

The following ambiguity may someday occur:

Y/MP 164  ==  16 processor Y/MP with 4 MW of memory
Y/MP 164  ==  1 processor Y/MP with 64 MW of memory

(The first configuration is unreasonable, but technically feasible
(sort of))