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To: Chris Hipp who wrote (3628)	11/20/1997 4:03:00 PM
From: Jeff-P	Respond to of 14451

> The T3E series are Vector Supercomputers. The T90 is a vector supercomputer. The T3D and T3E are not.

To: Chris Hipp who wrote (3628)	11/20/1997 4:53:00 PM
From: Edward Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Message from Chris Hipp on Nov 20 1997 11:36AM EST >Message from Jerry Whlan on Nov 20 1997 9:01AM EST > >So far, the largest Origin system that SGI has announced > >is only 128 processors and it will be in beta until next > >year. >There are solid plans to scale to numbers of processors >in the thousands. Indeed. The next generation Origin, refered to as SN-1, will be a joint SGI/Cray design and will replace the T3E as well. 2 machines (at least!!) have already been ordered - the DOE ASCI Blue Mountain project. See lanl.gov 1 is a 3072 processor machine, the other is 1024. (I am assuming that these will be SN-1, rather than SN-2, from the timescale involved - maybe some of the Cray people on this thread can confirm if this is correct, thanks). SN-2 will replace the vector machines (J90 & T90) as well as SN-1. Along the way, a lot of OS functionality will be added to IRIX from Unicos, such as DMF announced this week. Ed PS: IMHO buying Cray is one of the best things SGI ever did - even just for the OS technology, never mind the hardware expertise.