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Foil 44 Some History

From Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Before 1980: Illiac IV, ICL DAP, MPP
  • All SIMD
  • Cray 1 Introduced In 1976
2 Early 1980s: HEP, Cray X-MP/22, NYU UltraComputer (and IBM RP3)
3 1983: The Birth of the Hypercube:
  • The Caltech Cosmic Cube
  • Charles Seitz and Geoffrey Fox
  • The Caltech Concurrent Computation Program (C3P)
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