Cray Research Inc duly unveiled its line of Superservers developed around Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc processors. The line, developed by Cray’s Superserver subsidiary in Portland, Oregon, will also be marketed by Sun’s SunIntegration Services unit – Cray has signed a memorandum of understanding for Sun to become a reseller of the CS6400 Superserver system, which is expandable to 64 Sparc processors – the things range in price from $400,000 for the four-processor version and $2.5m for the 64-processor system and Cray Research Superservers is looking to sell hundreds of the new systems. Initial shipments will begin late this year, with volume scheduled for first quarter 1994.Cray said that any program which runs under Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris will run on the CS6400 without any modification. Cray also said that Sican GmbH, a German microelectronics firm has ordered a 48-processor system which it will receive by the middle of next year and that Electricite de France will buy a 16-processor system with 2Gb memory, to be shipped next month and upgraded to 32 CPUs in 1994.
