The Cray-2: The New Standard in Supercomputing

An overview of the Cray-2 system, including its capability and performance, is provided. The Cray-2 consists of 4 background processors and a foreground processor for I/O. An extremely large multibank memory is a key feature, as is the cooling technology. The operating system is based on Unix System. V*. The Cray-2 may be considered as the new standard in supercomputing because of its unprecedentedly large main memory and its Unix operating system.