The naming scheme of Cray X-MP

[Albert Viall]

In article <1991Feb27.221033.27018 at csn.org>, mrmca at tramp.Colorado.EDU (MCALLISTER MICHAEL R) writes:
> In article <1991Feb27.190807.26406 at msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> sushil at omena.cps.msu.edu (Sushil Bhattacharjee) writes:
> >Hi,
> >This may be the wrong place to ask this question, but I could not find
> >any other appropriate newsgroup. 
> >My question is - What do the numbers at the end of 'Cray X-MP' mean in
> >the name of the machine? 
> >e.g.  What does the 12 mean in 'Cray X-MP/12' or the 48 in 'Cray X-MP/48' ?
> >
> >I do not usually read this newsgroup, so I will appriciate it if you
> >send e-mail to sushil at pixel.cps.msu.edu, in case you know the answer.
> 
> 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.
> 

In some cases, you may see conventions such as 'X-MP4/28' or 'Y-MP8/4128'.
In these examples, the '4' in 'X-MP4/28' means the total number of cpu's that
the system can hold, and the '28' means that the system has '2' cpu's installed
along with '8' mega-words of on-board memory.
The same is true for the Y-MP.
--Al

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