[GreenKeys] USB/RS232

[Craig Sawyers]

> PS:  You can't quite compare PC mips and Cray mips.  Since the Cray
> machines used a vector architecture, pure mips don't solve the same
> applications the same way.  The Crays were best at three-dimensional
> problems

Yes - of course you're quite right Gil.  In fact two of Cray's offerings are
large arrays of AMD Opteron processors (the lower cost products!).  This
high ticket item, the X1E, is the usual uber-system of proprietary silicon,
weighing tons, freon-cooled, with hundreds of Teraflops capability.  Their
stated aim is to get to a Petaflop (10^18) by the end of the decade.

> I worked at Cray for a
> couple of years,
> just before they killed themselves off with their "we don't
> care about no
> stinkin' competition" attitude.  Workstations, like the IBM
> RS6000, started
> to attack the same problems using a "parallel calculations
> across a network
> cluster" approach, for a lot less money.  This was circa
> early 90s.

That is interesting - Must have been around the time that Seymour Cray was
moved sideways/out, and started his own business (again).  A tragedy that he
was killed in a car smash in 1996.

Craig