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  • First Cray T3D Super Goes Up For Auction

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Sun May 24 23:41:36 2026
    Apparently, this machine marked Cray?s move away from its traditional long-vector processor architecture (think Cray-1 and its successor
    X-MP and Y-MP lines) towards the massive parallelism trend that
    dominates supercomputing today <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/first-ever-cray-t3d-supercomputer-goes-up-for-auction-with-usd81-000-reserve-europes-fastest-supercomputer-in-june-1996-goes-on-the-block>.

    It was interesting to discover that the individual CPU nodes consisted
    of DEC Alpha processors.

    The second-hand sale is going for fractions of a penny on the dollar.
    But given the machine?s when-new price, that still adds up to a
    sizeable chunk?o?change ...

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
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