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CRAY T3E

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Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing

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This entry describes the hardware and software architecture of the CRAY T3E Massively Parallel Processor (MPP), a landmark supercomputer system that became the first commercially successful MPP, and the first to be used in production data centers around the world. It discusses the historical context leading to the development of the T3E and its predecessor system, the CRAY T3D, and the significance of the T3E to the computational science and engineering community.

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The Transition from Vector Systems to Massively Parallel Systems

In 1976, the first CRAY-1 supercomputer was shipped to Los Alamos National Laboratory, setting a new benchmark for general purpose supercomputing. Although Cray Research was a very small company with less than 100 employees at the time, Seymour Cray and a small team had already started down what would turn out to be a rather difficult path to design a successful follow-on product, the CRAY-2. The success of the...

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution of many former colleagues who made helpful suggestions and thoroughly reviewed the text for technical and historical accuracy. Specifically, they wish to thank Mike Booth, Bill Minto, Steve Scott, David Wallace, and William White.

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Dungworth, M., Harrell, J., Levine, M., Nelson, S., Oberlin, S., Reinhardt, S.P. (2011). CRAY T3E. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_306

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