I tried to review this story when it first came out and kept getting a " no story found " when I tried to get this information.

Cray Research maintained a Y-MP supercomputer at NASA/AMES research center and was serving the processing community for many years. When John Rollwagen took over, the first thing he did was gut the research budget, effectively killing off our MP-64 and Seymour's CRAY-3 Projects.
Since I was the only Silicon Valley transplant, I kept a large poster of the I386 die and a sign that said : " this is our future competition " on my office door.I got the first 386 dual processor from Compaq through Computerland of Eau Clare, WI. I as allowed to " evaluate it " until I left Cray Research and I ran Autocad 2.18 and did all my design work that system. I was able to get many xtra programs for nothing or at a sharp discount in price ( Autocad for $400.00 is an example ).
No more dark rooms where large CALMA drafting systems were.
I am not surprised at 210k processors, I would be interested in how the software manages the processors. Seymour's adage about chickens vs an oxen was very wrong at that was what the MP-64 was all about.
MPP processing system are the new wave, when will 3D and 3 state level ( 0 don't care 1 ) state systems, along with multiplexed optical fiber interconnects ( narrow band multiplexed UV to IR levels ) takes care of the computer " clock " with data streamed along the same F/O cable...