HIGH TECHNOLOGY
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Powerful Computer Unveiled: Cray Research Inc. unveiled a supercomputer four times more powerful than the fastest model the company has on the market. The C90 is geared toward customers with a need for speed. It has 16 central processing units and a peak speed of 16 gigaflops--16 billion calculations per second. The company has six or seven signed orders for the $30-million machine, said Charles Grassl, a Cray Research senior marketing analyst.
