[Info-vax] OT: Intel dusts off old supercomputing technology

[Michael Kraemer]

Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>> The days VMS was used for raw number crunching are long gone
>> (did it ever make it in the upper half of the Top 500 ?)
>> and somehow I doubt that it was better suited for this
>> purpose than any other OS.
> 
> 
> I am pretty sure that they did not.
> 
> The TOP500 list was started in 1993.
> 
> And at that time VMS was out of that kind of
> computing (6000's and 9000's with vector must
> have been the last VMS boxes suited for
> competing).

HPC charts existed before the "official TOP500".
I remember an HPC conference in 1990, organized by
H. Meuer, the guy who co-invented TOP500.
And Linpack & friends existed before that.
VAXen most often were used as a front-end
for Crays and Superminis rather than as number crunchers
themselves. Of course in the 1980s they were in widespread
use for lesser computing tasks, but so were the
Sun, Apollo and HP Unix boxes.