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...most of the supercomputer era, the market for the most powerful machines has been dominated by one firm, Cray Research of Minneapolis. With 178 of its distinctive C-shaped models installed around the world, Cray accounts for 60% of all the supercomputers sold. The closest competitor, located directly across the Mississippi River in St. Paul, is the company from which Cray split off in 1972: Control Data Corp. CDC, which in 1983 created a supercomputer subsidiary called ETA Systems, is holding steady with a 12.7% market share. Coming up quickly is a trio of Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu...
With 58% of the world market, Cray Research is indisputably the supercompany in the design and manufacture of supercomputers -- those ultrafast number crunchers that can do everything from designing jumbo jets to forecasting the < weather. But the company fell behind schedule last year in its drive to bring out a new generation of machines that would have eight central processors instead of four. In the meantime, Cray's main American supercomputer rival, ETA, this year unveiled machines with up to eight processors...
...Cray did not trail for long, however. Last week the company introduced the much ballyhooed Y-MP model. Though it is difficult to compare peak computer speeds accurately, the new Cray, which can perform as many as 4 billion calculations per second, is probably at least as fast as any other machine on the market...
...forces with an outsider, Steve Chen, a leading supercomputer designer, to develop a machine for the 1990s that will be 100 times faster than today's speediest devices. Chen started his own tiny research company, Supercomputer Systems, of Eau Claire, Wis., only three months ago, after leaving industry leader Cray Research when that company balked at the $100 million cost of his next generation of machines...
...60th-birthday concert in St. Louis last year, tempers simmer as Berry keeps running Keith Richards, the concert's music director, through the opening guitar slur for Carol. And yet at the end of their concert -- which features guest shots by Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray and Julian Lennon -- Richards can feel satisfied that he provided a fine backup band for his loner-hero...