| 1980s |
1982: Steve Chen's group
at Cray Research produces the first X-MP, containing two pipelined
processors compatible with the CRAY-1 and shared memory.
1983: Goodyear Aerospace delivers the Massively Parallel Processor
(MPP) to NASA Goddard. The Machine contains 16K processors in
a 128x128 grid, each with 1024 bits of memory
1984: The CRAY X-MP family is expanded to include 1- and 4-processor
machines. A CRAY X-MP running CX-OS, the first Unix-like operating
system for supercomputers, is delivered to NASA Ames.
1985: Intel produces the first iPSC/1
hypercube, which contains 80286 processors connected through Ethernet
controllers.
1989: QCD machine containing
256 nodes goes into operation at Columbia University, delivering
16 GFLOPS peak and 6.4 GFLOPS.
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| 2000s |
2000: Blue Horizon, built by IBM, is located at
the San Diego Supercomputer Center and first came into full production
operation March 1st, 2000. The hardware consists of 1152 processors.
Each processor runs at 222Mhz and they are grouped into nodes
of 8 processors per node. Each node is able to access 4Gb of RAM,
this gives a total memory of 576Gb.
2003: TeraGrid is the world's largest, fastest, distributed infrastructure
for open scientific research. It includes 20 teraflops of computing
power distributed at five sites, facilities capable of managing
and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization
environments, and toolkits for grid computing. These components
will be tightly integrated and connected through a network that
will operate at 40 gigabits per second-the fastest research network
on the planet.
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