1990’s

• 1990

  • Internet
  • World Wide Web
  • Motorola introduces 68040
  • NEC ships SX-3; First parallel Japanese parallel vector supercomputer
  • IBM announces RS/6000 family
    • has FMA instruction
  • Intel hypercube based on 860 chip
    • 128 processors
  • Alliant delivers FX/2800 based on i860
  • Fujitsu VP-2600
  • PVM project started
  • Level 3 BLAS Published

• 1991

  • Stardent to sell business and close
  • Cray C-90
  • Kendall Square Research delivers 32 processor KSR-1
  • TMC produces CM-200 and announces CM-5 MIMD computer
  • DEC announces the Alpha
  • TMC produces the first CM-5
  • Fortran 90
  • Workshop to consider Message Passing Standard, beginnings of MPI
    • Community effort
  • Xnetlib running

• 1992

  • LAPACK software released & Users' Guide Published

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