Editing Floating Point Systems (section)

=== Celerity acquisition; acquisition by Cray ===
In 1988, FPS acquired the assets of [[Celerity Computing]] of [[San Diego, California]], renaming itself as '''FPS Computing'''. Celerity's product lines were further developed by FPS, the [[Celerity 6000]] [[minisupercomputer]] being developed into the ''FPS Model 500'' series.

FPS was acquired by [[Cray]] in 1991 for $3.25 million, and their products became the ''[[Cray S-MP|S-MP]]'' and ''APP'' product lines of [[Cray Research]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/11/post_49.html|last=Tobias|first=Lori|author2=Mike Rogoway |author3=Richard Read |title=Norm Winningstad, high-tech pioneer and philanthropist in Oregon, dies at 85|date=November 24, 2010|work=[[The Oregonian]]|access-date=1 December 2010}}</ref>

The S-MP was a [[SPARC]]-based [[multiprocessor]] server (based on the Model 500); the MCP a matrix co-processor array based on eighty-four [[Intel i860]] processors. After Cray purchased FPS, it changed the group's direction by making them ''Cray Research Superservers, Inc.'', later becoming the '''Cray Business Systems Division''' (Cray BSD). The MCP was renamed the [[Cray APP]]. The S-MP architecture was not developed further. Instead, it was replaced by the ''[[Cray CS6400|Cray Superserver 6400]]'', (CS6400), which was derived indirectly from a collaboration between [[Sun Microsystems]] and [[Xerox PARC]].