Cray Research Inc lifted the veil a little yesterday on its plans to build a line of massively parallel processing systems around Digital Equipment Corp’s Alpha RISC for launch next year. Cray says its first massively parallel system has a scalable architecture that combines the Alpha microprocessors through a high-bandwidth, low latency interconnect network that will be an order-of-magnitude faster than those of current masively parallel systems. It implements a multiple-instruction, multiple-data architecture that can also emulate single-instruction, multiple-data and multiple computer MIMD architectures Cray said.
