1980’s Vector Computing (Parallel Processing)

• 1980

  • Total computers in use in the US exceeds 1M
  • CDC Introduces Cyber 205

• 1981

  • IBM introduces the PC
    • Intel 8088/DOS
  • BBN Butterfly delivered
  • FPS delivers FPS-164
    • Start of mini-supercomputer market
  • SGI founded by Jim Clark and others
  • Loop unrolling at outer level for data locality and parallelism
    • Amounts to matrix-vector operations
  • Cuppen's method for Symmetric Eigenvalue D&C published
    • Talk at Oxford Gatlinburg (1980)

• 1982

  • Illiac IV decommissioned
  • Steve Chen's group at Cray produces X-MP
  • First Denelcor HEP installed (.21 Mflop/s)
  • Sun Microsys, Convex and Alliant founded

• 1983

  • Total computers in use in the US exceed 10 M
  • DARPA starts Strategic Computing Initiative
    • Helps fund Thinking Machines, BBN, WARP
  • Cosmic Cube hypercube running at Caltech
    • John Palmer, after seeing Caltech machine, leaves Intel to found Ncube
  • Encore , Sequent, TMC, SCS, Myrias founded
  • Cray 2 introduced
  • NEC SX-1 and SX-2, Fujitsu ships VP-200
  • ETA System spun off from CDC
  • Golub & Van Loan published

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