Cray T3E
Processing Nodes connected in a 3-D Torus
- Each node contains two Processing elements
Each PE has an Alpha 21164 plus extra circuitry to augment latency hiding, synchronization, message passing
- Each PE can have between 64M and 2 GB of memory
- Up to 2048 processors (minimum of 16)
- Clock rate of 600 Mhz
Meant to be a shared memory machine, but no hardware to maintain cache consistency
- Consistency maintained in software