1970’s continued
1974
- Intel 8080
- Level 1 BLAS activity started by community; Purdue 5/74
- LINPACK meeting in summer ANL
1975
- First issue of TOMS
- Second LINPACK meeting ANL
- lay the groundwork and hammer out what was and was not to be included in the package. Proposal submitted to the NSF
1976
- Cray 1 - model for vector computing
- 4 Mflop/s in 79; 12 Mflop/s in 83; 27 Mflop/s in 89
- LINPACK work during summer at ANL
- EISPACK Second edition of User's Guide
1977
- DEC VAX 11/780; super mini
- .14 Mflop/s; 4.3 GB virtual memory
- LINPACK test software developed &sent
- EISPACK second release
- IEEE Arithmetic standard meetings
- paper by Palmer on INTEL std for fl pt
1978
- Fortran 77
- LINPACK software released
- Sent to NESC and IMSL for distribution
1979
- John Cocke designs 801
- ICL DAP delivered to QMC, London
- Level 1 BLAS published/released
- LINPACK Users' Guide
- Appendix: 17 machines PDP-10 to Cray-1