Cray used a variety of front ens, including DG Supernova.

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On 8/2/23 10:35 AM, Allan Staller wrote:
> My vague recollection of the CRAY was that is used (at the time)
> a 370/158 to buffer up all of the data so the CRAY could run full tilt.

That may very well have been a possibility.

I read that the CRAY used a CDC mainframe a it's front end for this purpose.

But I would not be at all surprised if an IBM mainframe could function
equivalently.



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Grant. . . .

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