Scientific Computing: 1987 vs 1997
1987:
- Minisupercomputers (1 - 20 Mflop/s): Alliant, Convex, DEC.
- Parallel vector processors (PVP) (20 - 2,000 Mflop/s)
1997:
- PCs (300 Mflop/s): Intel Pentium II
- RISC workstations (10 - 1,000 Mflop/s): DEC, HP, IBM, SGI, Sun.
- RISC based symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) (0.5 - 15 Gflop/s): HP-Convex, DEC, and SGI.
- Parallel vector processors (1 - 250 Gflop/s): SGI-CRI, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC.
- Highly parallel processors (1 - 1,000 Gflop/s): HP-Convex, SGI-CRI, Fujitsu, IBM, NEC, Hitachi