Cray Computer Corp’s plans to seek a partner to help it market smaller configurations of its Cray-3 (CI No 1,860) are seen as an effort to get some cash coming into the company while it pursues its top-end goals – it is thinking in terms of four- and eight-processor configurations of the Cray-3 rather than the fully-configured 16-processor configuration that it regards as its primary product; some observers say the company has begun design work on the Cray-4 and suggest that that may soon become the focus of the Colorado Springs company’s efforts.
