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From: js@hall.cray.com (Jeff Stout)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc
Subject: Re: front ends to crays...
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Date: 12 Jun 89 08:00:13 GMT
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Reply-To: js@hall.UUCP (Jeff Stout)
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In article <4557@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>In article <5674@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes:
>}What would make a good front end for a YMP, and why? We really want to
>}make a good choice, and like most organizations, this will be our
>}first and only Cray... we don't have any first hand experience on
>}what make a really good front end.
>
>About 2 years ago I happened to meet the computing resources manager for
>the Cray being used by Lockheed's Black Hole project.  She told me they
>were using an IBM 3090 for the front end.

You can use about anything its just a matter of how much you want to spend.