Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 7 A Brief History of Scientific Computing

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Mid 1980's to late 1980's
2 Networking - more commonly - Ethernet - Distributed file systems and servers
3 Late 1980's to early 1990's
4 Desktop workstations start to proliferate - CPU/Memory/Disk more affordable - Parallel Languages - P4, PVM, Linda, etc. - Hippi and FDDI networks
in Table To:

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun Apr 11 1999