Legacy of SDSC HPC Systems

  Year Computer installed at SDSC...
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  1985 Cray X-MP/48
  1986 SCS-40
  1989 Cray Y-MP8/864
  1990 nCUBE
  1990 Intel Paragon XP/S30, 400 nodes
  1993 Digital Equipment Alpha cluster
  1994 TMC CM-2
  1994 Cray T3D
  1996 Cray C90
  1997 Cray T3E
  1998 Cray T90
  1998 Cray J90 (SIO / Columbia University)
  1998 IBM RS/6000 SP
  1998 IBM RS/6000 HPSS storage cluster
  1998 Tera MTA
  1998 Sun HPC 10000 (Enterprise Server 10000)
  1998 Digital Equipment Rawhide cluster
  1998 Sun Wildfire cluster
  1998 SGI Origin2000
  1999 Sun HPC 10000 (enterprise Server 10000), 64 processor
  1999 IBM Blue Horizon, first teraflop computer for U.S. academic use
  2000 Meteor Linux Cluster (now almost 132 nodes) based on Intel IA32
  2001 IBM Linux on Power3 16-node cluster
  2001 Sun Fire 15000 alpha/prototype 32 processor, 32 GB memory
  2002 Linux on Intel IA64 32-processor cluster
  2002 Linux on Intel IA32 mini-TeraGrid cluster
  2002 Linux on Intel McKinley prototype node
  2002 Sun Fire 15000 72 processor, 288 GB memory
  2002 4.1 TFLOP Linux on IA64 TeraGrid node (planned late 2002)