Timetable of Vendors
From TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Wiki
The Timeline of HPC Vendors by 2005.11.
[edit] Table of Events
| Company Name | Foundation | The First (Non)Parallel Supercomp. | Appeared in Top500 | The Last Top500 System installed | Represented in Top500 by: | Reorganization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cray | 1972 | 1976 | 1993.06 | 2005.11 | today | 1996: bought by SGI; 2000: sold to Tera Computer |
| Hitachi | 1910 | 1990 | 1993.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| Intel | 1968 | 1985 | 1993.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| NEC | 1898 | 1990 | 1993.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| Fujitsu | 1935 | 1990 | 1993.06 | 2005.06 | today | |
| IBM | 1911 | (1959)1993 | 1993.11 | 2005.11 | today | |
| SGI | 1982 | - | 1994.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| HP | 1939 | - | 1997.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| Sun | 1982 | 1997 | 1997.06 | 2005.11 | today | |
| DEC | 1957 | (1970)1990 | 1993.06 | 1998.06 | 1998.06 | 1998: acquired by Compaq |
| Dell | 1984 | - | 2001.11 | 2005.11 | today | |
| Atipa technology | 1986 | - | 2002.06 | 2005.06 | 2005.11 | |
| Compaq | 1982 | 1970 | 1998.11 | 2001.11 | 2001.11 | 2001: merged with HP |
| Linux Networx | 2000 | - | 2002.11 | 2005.11 | 2005.11 | Bankrupt: partial assets cherry picked by [SGI] |
| Convex | 1982 | 1985 | 1993.06 | 1995.11 | 1996.11 | 1994: bought by HP |
| Parsytec | 1985 | 1987 | 1993.06 | 1995.11 | 1997.06 | |
| HPTi | 1992 | - | 2000.11 | 2002.11 | today | |
| TMC | 1982 | 1986 | 1993.06 | 1995.06 | 1999.06 | 1994.08: bankruptcy, sold to Sun |
| MasPar | 1987 | 1990 | 1993.06 | 1994.11 | 1994.11 | 1996: transformed into a software company |
| Meiko | 1985 | 1986 | 1993.06 | 1994.11 | 1996.11 | mid-1996: founded Quadrics with Alenia Spazio |
| KSR | 1986 | 1991 | 1993.06 | 1994.06 | 1996.11 | 1995: went bankrupt |
| Cray Comp. | 1989 | 1990 | 1994.11 | 1994.11 | 1994.11 | 1995: the last supercomputer |
| nCube | 1983 | 1985 | 1993.06 | - | 1994.11 | 1995: shifted its focus |
| Alliant | 1982 | 1985 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1992: ceased trading |
