Stellar Computer Inc has enhanced its basic processor to create the 2000 Series Graphics and Departmental Supercomputers, doubling the performance of its previous systems. It also claims that the GS2000 Graphics and DS2000 Departmental Supercomputers set new price and performance benchmarks for users into interactive visualisation and distributed computation. Each is claimed to sustain up to 35 MIPS, with peak vector floating point performance of up to 100 MFLOPS. The GS2000 Series also offers twice the graphics animation rate of the GS1000, and an industry-unique dual-user capability – but come in at from $113,000, about the price at which the GS1000 line was launched in March last year. A GS2000 with 16Mb memory, 1Mb cache and 380Mb disk is $125,000. A corresponding DS2000 is $113,000. DS2500 pricing begins at $128,000. GS2500 systems begin at $140,000. All GS2000 single- and dual user systems and DS2000 systems are available now, GS2500 and DS2500 systems are available in the fourth quarter and upgrades to the 2500 models from the 2000s are $15,000.
