Cray Research Inc, now a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc, says that customer demand for its Cray J90 mid-range parallel vector computers remains healthy, with customers recently asking for larger systems with 16 to 32 processors. In its final quarter of fiscal 1997, ending June 30, the company says that shipments of the 32 processor top-end J Series machine accounted for about 60% of its order activity on the series. Many of them shipped with memory configurations over 4Gb. Cray recently added faster scalar processors and new GigaRing input/output subsystem to the J90se. Meanwhile, at the high-end, Cray says it now has an installed base of 68 Cray T3 and T3-900 systems, nine of them with 512 processors or more.
