1970’s

• 1970

  • NATS Project conceived
    • Concept of certified MS and process involved with production
  • Purdue Math Software Symposium
  • NAG project begins

• 1971

  • Handbook for Automatic Computation, Vol II
    • Landmark in the development of numerical algorithms and software
    • Basis for a number of software projects EISPACK, a number of linear algebra routines in IMSL and the F chapters of NAG
  • IBM 370/195
    • Pipelined architecture; Out of order execution; 2.5 Mflop/s
  • Intel 4004; 60 Kop/s
  • IMSL founded

• 1972

  • Cray Research founded
  • Intel 8008
  • 1/4 size Illiac IV installed NASA Ames
    • 15 Mflop/s achieved; 64 processors
  • Paper by S. Reddaway on massive bit-level parallelism
  • EISPACK available
    • 150 installations; EISPACK Users' Guide
    • 5 versions, IBM, CDC, Univac, Honeywell and PDP, distributed free via Argonne Code Center
  • M. Flynn publishes paper on architectural taxonomy
  • ARPANet
    • 37 computers connected

• 1973

  • BLAS report in SIGNUM
    • Lawson, Hanson, &Krogh

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