Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 09:53:27 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 08:55:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Sorry.. but if you go to the US Patent office, the _only_ patents that were >applied for during the development of the _original_ cray 1 were cooling >related. 1970's era ECL logic produced a world of heat. And I'm sure that Cray uses some sort of cooling. But maybe they just use "enough" cooling. Putting Kryotech-like hardware on all of their processors may be more work than it's worth to them. >And yes, the condensation problem is serious, and the Kryotech guys spent a lot >of time solving the problems. They had no choice. And as I said, I can't say >anything about what they got from AMD, but I know exactly what they were doing >with Digital as a friend in hardware development up there was involved in the >kryotech alpha project. They didn't jump thru hoops for the kryo guys at all >at Digital. From what I've read, AMD is fully supporting the Kryotech machine, to the point of providing a warranty for the processor. This tells me that they are pretty serious about stability; so they probably wouldn't be sending Kryotech processors that just barely work at 750MHz. I won't comment on the situation with Digital because I don't know anything about it. -Tom
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