Named for John von Neumann, the Center was located in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey at Princeton University and operated by The Consortium of Scientific Computing, Inc. an organization of 13 institutes from several states.
[2] The NSF review panel found that the ETA10 suffered a software failure once every 30 hours, and that its ability to run programs on more than one of its eight processors at any one time was poor.
[3] In addition to those computers, the facility had a Pixar H, two Silicon Graphics IRIS, and had video animation capabilities.
The center quickly obtained commitments from several of its large users, yet agency officials voted to cancel the decision.
Only two of the 10 members of the Princeton center’s consortium of state, industry, and academic users from outside New Jersey had agreed to help fund the $5 million Cray upgrade.