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[[FILE:CRAY-T3D IMG 8980.CR2.jpg|border|right|thumb|Cray T3D <ref>Cray T3D on display at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Lausanne EPFL], Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rama Rama], [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/ Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cray-T3D Category:Cray-T3D - Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]

'''Cray T3D''',<br/>
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#Cray_Research_Inc._and_Cray_Computer_Corporation:_1972_to_1996 Cray Research's] first-generation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel_%28computing%29 massively parallel] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer supercomputer] architecture, launched in 1993. The T3D is a scalable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing distributed] [[NUMA]] architecture containing up to 2048 processing element (PE) nodes of 150 MHz [[DEC Alpha|DEC Alpha 21064]] processor with either 16 or 64 MiB of [[Memory#RAM|DRAM]] interconnected as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect 3D torus], so that each processor can access the memory of every other processor. The T3D does not come as a stand-alone system but required a [[Cray X-MP#YMP|Y-MP]] as host system <ref>[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cgi/rni/comp-arch.pl?Shmem/t3d.html,Shmem/t3d-f.html,Shmem/menu-scal.html High Performance Computer Architectures: A Historical Perspective - The CRAY T3D]</ref>. The T3D PEs ran the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel Microkernel] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICOS UNICOS Max]. In 1995, the T3D was superseded by the [[Cray T3E]].

=Chess Programs=
* [[Frenchess]]

=See also=
* [[Cray-1]]
* [[Cray X-MP]]
* [[Cray T3E]]

=Manuals=
* [ftp://ftp.cray.com/product-info/mpp/T3D_Architecture_Over/T3D.overview.html CRAY T3D System Architecture Overview Manual], [http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/cray/HR-04033_CRAY_T3D_System_Architecture_Overview_Sep93.pdf as pdf]

=Publications=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-kessler/13/8b1/352 Richard Kessler], [http://www.uwec.edu/Math/news/upload/Bio-JSchwarzmeier.pdf Jim Schwarzmeier] ('''1993'''). ''[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=289660 Cray T3D: a new dimension for Cray Research]''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=903 Compcon Spring '93]
* [[Marc-François Baudot]], [[Jean-Christophe Weill]], [[Jean-Luc Seret]], [[Michel Gondran]] ('''1995'''). ''Frenchess: A Cray T3D at the 8th World Computer Chess Championship''. First European Cray-T3D Workshop, [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.78.967 CiteSeerX]

=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3D Cray T3D from Wikipedia]
* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cray-T3D Category:Cray-T3D - Wikimedia Commons]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray Cray (brand) from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.cray.com/ Cray, the Supercomputer Company | Cray"]
: [http://www.cray.com/company/history Company History | Cray]
* [http://www.craysupercomputers.com/crayT3D.htm Cray Super Computers - Cray T3D]
* [http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/supercomputer/t3d CRI Cray T3D | Computational Information Systems Laboratory]
* [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cgi/rni/comp-arch.pl?Shmem/t3d.html,Shmem/t3d-f.html,Shmem/menu-scal.html High Performance Computer Architectures: A Historical Perspective - The CRAY T3D]

=References=
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