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Foil 22 The Caltech/JPL Hypercube

From NPAC Centric view of Federal HPCC Program Trip to China(Beijing,Harbin) by Don Leskiw -- June23-July 5,1995. by Don Leskiw * Important Information in IMAGE
1983 - First 64-node Mark I Hypercube operational at CIT as collaboration between Seitz & Fox (CrOS)
1984 - JPL joins campus collaboration; designs and builds 32-node Mark II Hypercube
1985 - 128-node Mark II operational
  • Mark III project begun in earnest
  • Three commercial Hypercubes on market
1986 - Mark III operational (~10x performance of Mark II)
1987 - Strategic Defense Initiative applications and simulations (Mercury and Centuar OS)
  • Weitek based > 10 megaflop/node daughter board added: Mark III fp
1988 -128-node > 1 gigaflop computer (Mark IIIfp)

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