1980’s continued
1984
- NSFNET; 5000 computers;56 Kb/s lines
- MathWorks founded
- EISPACK third release
- Netlib begins 1/3/84
- Level 2 BLAS activity started
- Gatlinburg(Waterloo), Purdue, SIAM
- Intel Scientific Computers started by J. Rattner
- Produce commerical hypercube
- Cray X-MP 1 processor, 21 Mflop/s Linpack
- Multiflow founded by J. Fisher; VLIW architecture
- Apple introduces Mac &IBM introduces PC AT
- IJK paper
1985
- IEEE Standard 754 for floating point
- IBM delivers 3090 vector; 16 Mflop/s Linpack, 138 Peak
- TMC demos CM1 to DARPA
- Intel produces first iPSC/1 Hypercube
- 80286 connected via Ethernet controllers
- Fujitsu VP-400; NEC SX-2; Cray 2; Convex C1
- Ncube/10 ; .1 Mflop/s Linpack 1 processor
- FPS-264; 5.9 Mflop/s Linpack 38 Peak
- IBM begins RP2 project
- Stellar, Poduska & Ardent, Michels Supertek Computer founded
- Denelcor closes doors