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                          Stop date  | 
                         
                        
                          | 09 | 
                          1996 | 
                          09 | 
                          2001 | 
                         
                      
                     
                      
                      Machine massively parallel (MPP) self with  192 DEC Alpha processors. Each processor has 16 or 32 million words of memory 64  bits. Data is exchanged between nodes through a network interconnection 3D  toroidal topology.  
                           
                        It has a system  input / output type Giga-Ring (double ring 600 Mb / s each) and a disc capacity  of 450 GB (50-Fiber Channel disks).  
                        
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