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Foil 26 Some More History

From NPAC Centric view of Federal HPCC Program Trip to China(Beijing,Harbin) by Don Leskiw -- June23-July 5,1995. by Don Leskiw * See also color IMAGE
Mid-1980s: Sequent and Encore
  • Cost/performance better than 10 compared with VAX
  • Reliable hardware and software
  • Also the Alliant
  • Other Hypercubes: Intel, nCUBE, Ametek, Floating Point Systems
Late-1980s:
  • Meiko (T800), CM-2, MasPar
  • Then nCUBE-2 and iPSC/860
Early-1990s
  • Intel Touchstone Delta System, built for C3P (Fox)
  • The Intel Paragon, BBN TC2000, CM-5

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