SC13 Silver Anniversary Exhibits

Exhibitor

Booth

Title and Description

Cray Inc.

1313

Original Cray-1 Module: Cray will display a module from a Cray-1 supercomputer, which reigned as the world’s fastest computer from 1976 to 1982.

Numerical Algorithms Group

1716

25 years of Numerical Algorithms Group HPC Expertise and Numerical Libraries: 25 years of NAG HPC Expertise and Numerical Libraries at SC demonstrates that getting the right answer still matters!

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

1722

NWT, Numerical Wind Tunnel: NWT, the world's first vector parallel computer and three-time Gordon Bell Prize winner. BiCMOS, ECL, and GaAs LSI were used.

University of Illinois

1820

ILLIAC II – From the Dawn of Supercomputing: With transistors replacing vacuum tubes and magnetic-core member, ILLIAC II (1963) led to smaller, faster, reliable, energy-efficient and commercially-successful computers.

Intel

2701

Intel iPSC/860, Intel Paragon, and ASCI Red: Intel's massively parallel supercomputers, the iPSC/860 and Paragon, were the basis for ASCI Red, the world’s fastest supercomputer from 1997-2000.

IBM

2713

IBM Celebrating 25 Years of Supercomputing and Beyond: IBM is honored to present computer artifacts and a graphical timeline spanning over 67 years of HPC innovation.

Fujitsu Limited

2718

Fujitsu's Contribution to HPC: FACOM M-190, world’s first fully LSI-based mainframe co-developed with Amdahl and NWT, revolutionary vector parallel supercomputer featuring distributed-memory architecture.

NEC

3109

NEC SX Series Vector Supercomputers—Three Decades of Evolution: NEC showcases the evolution of the SX Series vector supercomputers with photographs since its early model of the SX-2.

HPCWire

3510

HPCwire - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: HPCwire celebrates SC’s Silver Anniversary! Visit #3510 for your copy of the 1st Supercomputing Program Guide, compliments of HPCwire! tci.taborcommunications.com/HPCwireReports

Cycle Computing

3610

Cycle Computing Supercomputing History Fold-Out Poster: Cycle Computing will hand out limited-edition Timeline of HPC History posters, celebrating six eras of computing in photos and words.