Intel Paragon OSF/1 AD on the Paragon's compute processors. Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated a Paragon XP/S 150 MP, one of the largest Paragon systems, for several years. The prototype for the Intel Paragon was the Intel Delta, built by Intel with funding from DARPA and installed operationally at the California Institute of Technology in the late 1980s with funding from the National Science Foundation. The Delta was one of the few computers to sit significantly above the curve of Moore's Law. The computer boards was produced in two variants: the GP16 with 16 MB of memory and two CPUs, and the
Skidmore v. Swift & Co. majority in "Christensen" held that an agency's interpretation of a statute, announced in more informal agency papers (such as an opinion letter), is entitled to "Skidmore" deference, not "Chevron" deference. "United States v. Mead Corp.", 533 U.S. 218 (2001) explicitly reaffirms Skidmore and reiterates deference to agency interpretations that do not have statutory authority resulting from a rule-making process are based on "the agency's care, its consistency, formality, and relative expertness, and to the persuasiveness of the agency's position." Skidmore v. Swift & Co. Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court decision