1985 – Cray X-MP/48 Supercomputer
The Cray X-mp/48 Supercomputer
begins operation in San Diego Supercomputer Center in California. The $15
million dollar supercomputer could process 400 megaflops (200 per processor).
It was a shared-memory parallel vector processor and supported 2 or 4 million
64-bit words of main memory in 16or32 banks.
The
first Cray didn’t get installed until October 1986. Cray X-MP/48 replaced the
Cray-1. It was the Cray Y-MP8/864 in 1990. Movies such as “the Last
Starfighter” were rendered using the Cray Supercomputer.
1996 – General Motor began delivery of
the EV1, an electric vehicle that would become well-loved by its drivers then
be taken back in 2002 and sent to car-crushers.
1998 – The Space shuttle Endeavour
lifted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the first American-built component of
the International Space Station, a connecting node, known as Unity.
2001 – Goner Worm Hits Internet
Disguised as a screen saver and
spread through an infected user’s Microsoft Outlook e-mail software, the Goner
worm spreads through the Internet at a pace second only to the Love Bug virus
the previous year. Goner was estimated to cause about $80 million dollars in
damage.
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