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
Mid 1980's to late 1980's
Networking - more commonly - Ethernet - Distributed file systems and servers
Late 1980's to early 1990's
Desktop workstations start to proliferate - CPU/Memory/Disk more affordable - Parallel Languages - P4, PVM, Linda, etc. - Hippi and FDDI networks

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