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First Cray T3D Super Goes Up For Auction

From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.folklore.computers on Sun May 24 23:41:36 2026

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Apparently, this machine marked CrayrCOs move away from its traditional long-vector processor architecture (think Cray-1 and its successor
X-MP and Y-MP lines) towards the massive parallelism trend that
dominates supercomputing today <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/first-ever-cray-t3d-supercomputer-goes-up-for-auction-with-usd81-000-reserve-europes-fastest-supercomputer-in-june-1996-goes-on-the-block>.

It was interesting to discover that the individual CPU nodes consisted
of DEC Alpha processors.

The second-hand sale is going for fractions of a penny on the dollar.
But given the machinerCOs when-new price, that still adds up to a
sizeable chunkrCOorCOchange ...
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