Fujitsu / Argonne National Laboratory / Los Alamos National Laboratory / IBM Research Laboratory / US National Laboratories / Silicon Graphics / BBN / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / FPS / SUPRENUM / INTegrated ELectronics / Texas Instruments / Lawrence Livermore Laboratory / Cray / Denelcor / Ballistics Research Laboratory / Teradata / Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Alliant / KSR / Fairchild Semiconductor / Patterson / Intel / Microsoft / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
United Kingdom / Germany / United States / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Company Expansion / /
Facility
European Centre / Ballistics Research Laboratory / University of Southampton / IBM Research Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
scientific applications / parallel computing / early hardware / car crash simulation / technology development / logic chips / automatic calculating device / greater computing requirements / finance / parallel systems / graphics applications / Typical applications / car crash simulation code / image processing / mass-market applications / data parallel applications / car crash modelling / computing / iPSC parallel systems / enormous computing requirements / scientific computing / bit memory chip / software challenge / parallel computing project / calculator manufacturer / research computing / desktop computing / retail / speed proprietary networks / generalpurpose logic chip / parallel processing / Car manufacturers / software systems / compilation systems / transaction processing / early scientific parallel computing / public domain tool / electronic equipment / banking / cement / semiconductor memory chips / parallel processors / vector supercomputer systems / message-passing parallel computing / /
NaturalFeature
Gulf Stream / Yorktown Heights / /
OperatingSystem
DOS / /
Organization
US Air Force / US Department of Energy / Natural Environmental Research Council / European Union / European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting / Joint Information Systems Committee / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Southampton / /
Person
Chuck Seitz / John Atanasoff / Konrad Zuse / John Cocke / Augusta Ada Byron / Eugene Brooks / Rusty Lusk / Jack Kilby / Anthony J. G. Hey / Edward Teller / Rolf Hempel / Joseph-Marie Jacquard / Dan Bricklin / John Mauchly / William Shockley / Stan Augarten / Hitler / J.Presper Eckert / Charles Babbage / Walter Brattain / Alan Turing / Ted Hoff / Kurt Lehovec / Fran Allen / Gordon Moore / Jean Hoerni / Geoffrey Fox / John Backus / John Bardeen / Robert Noyce / /
Position
VP system / first programmer / founder / engineer / central controller / representative / programmer / engineer working / driver / Teller / poet / scientist / bricklayer / forward for the highest performance computers / physicist / general scientific computing / famous poet / /
Product
PC / Micromosaic chip / NX2 message-passing system / C-90 / NX2 / Micromosaic / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Fortran / Fortran 77 / VisiCalc / C / Fortran 90 / Ada / C++ / /