The Cray-2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by Cray Research starting in 1985. At 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released, replacing the Cray X-MP in that spot.

The Cray-2 was a four processor vector architecture with a 256 million 64-bit memory (the largest central memory available on any computer) and 4.1 nanosecond clock speed. It reached a peak speed of 1.9 gigaflops. The Cray Y-MP supercomputer has a cameo in the 1992 film Sneakers.

Nov 23, 2022 · Space Wars: 80s CRAY-2 Supercomputer vs. Modern-Day iPhone. To generate the computing power of an iPhone 12, the 80s CRAY-2 supercomputer would have to be as big as a Medieval Times...

With its significant innovations in architecture and technology, the GRAY-2 Computer System sets the standard for the next generation of supercomputers. The CRAY-2 design allows many types of users to solve problems that cannot be solved with any other computers.

The present CRAY-2 system is a four-processor vector supercomputer (Serial Number: 2021), with a 4.1 nanosecond clock period, a 2 GByte/s I/O backplane, and is capable of 1.9 gigaflops at peak performance. It has 512 MWords of Common Memory accessible by all four processors, and 16 KWords of high-speed Local Memory dedicated to each processor.

Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 [1] – October 5, 1996) [2] was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines.

The Cray 2 can perform 250 million calculations per second and has 10 times the memory of any other computer. Ames researchers are shown creating computer simulations of...

CMoA has obtained a rare 1985 CRAY-2 supercomputer from NASA who used it to simulate flight for hundreds of research aircraft at NASA’s Langley Research Center.

With its significant innovations in architecture and technology, the CRAY-2 series of computer systems sets the standard for the next generation of supercomputers. The large memory and high performance of the CRAY-2 series allow users to solve problems in …

Based on the Cray 1 supercomputer designed by American engineer Seymour Cray in 1976, Cray 2 was the world's most powerful computer when it came out and the second to break the...