Cray Y-MP supercomputer. Unit for a Cray Y-MP supercomputer at the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC), California, USA. Introduced

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Cray Y-MP supercomputer. Unit for a Cray Y-MP supercomputer at the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC), California, USA. Introduced in 1988, this was the first supercomputer to sustain over one gigaflop (floating point operations) on many applications. It had eight processors that could run independently or in parallel. It also had a solid-state storage device that functioned as a dedicated high-speed disk drive. Photographed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1990s, after the centre was renamed NERSC, but before it moved to Berkeley.

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