Cray APP

The Cray APP (Attached Parallel Processor) was a parallel computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 onwards. It was based on the Intel i860 microprocessor and could be configured with up to 84 processors. The design was based on "computational nodes" of 12 processors interconnected by a shared bus, with multiple nodes connected to each other, memory and I/O nodes via an 8×8 crossbar switch.

The APP was marketed as a "matrix co-processor" system and required a SPARC-based host system to operate, such as the Cray S-MP. Connection to the host system was via VMEbus or HiPPI. A fully configured APP had a peak performance of 6.7 (single-precision) gigaflops.

The APP was originally designed by FPS Computing as the FPS MCP-784. FPS were acquired by Cray Research in 1991, becoming Cray Research Superservers Inc., and the MCP-784 was relaunched by Cray in 1992 as the APP.

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Cray computers

Cray Research	Cray-1 Cray X-MP Cray-2 Cray Y-MP Cray XMS Cray Y-MP EL Cray C90 Cray EL90 Cray T3D Cray J90 Cray T90 Cray T3E Cray SV1

Cray Computer Corp.	Cray-3 Cray-3/SSS Cray-4

Cray Research Superservers	Cray APP Cray S-MP Cray CS6400

Cray Inc.	Cray SX-6 Cray MTA-2 Cray Red Storm Cray X1 Cray XT3 Cray XD1 Cray XT4 Cray XMT Cray XT5 Cray CX1 Cray XT6 Cray XE6 Cray CX1000 Cray XK6 Cray XK7 Cray XC30 Cray XC40 Cray XC50 Urika-XA Urika-GD

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