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The Cray I made its name as the first commercially successful vector processor. The fastest machine of its day, its speed came partly from its shape, a C, which reduced the length of wires and thus the time signals needed to travel across them.
Project started:
1972
Project completed:
1976
Speed:
166 million floating-point operations per second
Size:
58 cubic feet
Weight:
5,300 lbs.
Technology:
Integrated circuit
Clock rate:
83 million cycles per second
Word length:
64-bit words
Instruction set:
128 instructions