Talk:Cray T3D

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... using 256 150MHz Alpha processors. Every processor had 8MB RAM, resulting in a 16 GB overal memory. 256*8MB = 2GB, not 16GB. Until someone figures out whether the processors had 64MB of memory each, or the total system memory was 2GB, I'm commenting this out. grendel|khan 03:03, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)

It was probably meant to be megawords. Cray had big words, I think... Rsynnott 18:25, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A YMP word was 64-bits, or 8 bytes, but it predated the IEEE format. The Alpha cpus were run in 64-bit mode, although there was no conversion to cray FP format. The T3D was a total dog when trying to dump out the RAM to disk and the word soon got around. Took about 30mins core dump since the disk i/o through the front end was only a few megabytes per second. The T3E fixed this problem. Early model EL system were just as bad.220.244.72.82 (talk) 09:27, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cray's T3D product vs. one instance of it.[edit]

This stub article appears to refer to one particular T3D installation rather than the general product offering from Cray. 2.26.148.31 (talk) 10:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]