1980’s (Lost Decade for Parallel Software)
1986
- # of computers in US exceeds 30 M
- TMC ships CM-1; 64K 1 bit processors
- Cray X-MP
- IBM and MIPS release first RISC WS
1987
- ETA Systems family of supercomputers
- Sun Microsystems introduces its first RISC WS
- IBM invests in Steve Chen's SSI
- Cray Y-MP
- First NA-DIGEST
- Level 3 BLAS work begun
- LAPACK: Prospectus Development of a LA Library for HPC
1988
- AMT delivers first re-engineered DAP
- Intel produces iPSC/2
- Stellar and Ardent begin delivering single user graphics workstations
- Level 2 BLAS paper published
1989
- # of computers in the US > 50M
- Stellar and Ardent merge, forming Stardent
- S. Cray leaves Cray Research to form Cray Computer
- Ncube 2nd generation machine
- ETA out of business
- Intel 80486 and i860 ; 1 M transistors
- i860 RISC & 64 bit floating point