Editing Cray-3/SSS (section)

==Construction==
In August 1994 the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] contracted [[Cray Computer Corporation]] (CCC) to build a 512,000 processor design with 2,048 processors per RAM chip.<ref name="10Q"/><ref>Norris Parker Smith, [http://www.taborcommunications.com/archives/1489.html "Seymour & NSA Revive SIMD as Thinking Machines Buried"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120914004830/http://www.taborcommunications.com/archives/1489.html |date=2012-09-14 }}, ''Supercomputing Review '', 26 August 1994</ref> [[National Semiconductor]] was selected to produce Iobst's design, where Mark Norder and Jennifer Schrader modified the design and laid it out for production. 

The first half of the machine, with 256,000 processors, was run for the first time on 2 March 1995.<ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CRAY+COMPUTER+CORP.+COMPLETES+INITIAL+DEMONSTRATION+OF+THE+CRAY-3...-a016628331 "Cray Computer Corp. Completes Initial Demonstration of the Cray-3 Super Scalable System"], Cray Computer press release, 7 March 1995</ref>

(On March 24, 1995 Cray Computer Corp' filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.)