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From: fouts@infonode.ingr.com (Martin Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: The naming scheme of Cray X-MP
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Date: 27 Feb 91 21:49:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dre@sequoia.cray.com's message of 27 Feb 91 23:32:44 GMT

>>>>> On 27 Feb 91 23:32:44 GMT, dre@sequoia.cray.com (Dennis Ellis) said:

>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.
>
>Mike McAllister
>mrmca@tramp.colorado.edu

Dennis>   Close. The first number is the number of CPUs (1 to 4). The
Dennis> second number is the amount of memory in megaWORDS (1 word = 8 bytes).

The following ambiguity may someday occur:

Y/MP 164  ==  16 processor Y/MP with 4 MW of memory
Y/MP 164  ==  1 processor Y/MP with 64 MW of memory

(The first configuration is unreasonable, but technically feasible
(sort of))