THE SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION
is a voluntary consortium of persons acting together to advance the science and application of high-performance computing technology through the offering of technical meetings and in particular, through the offering of, The Supercomputing Conference (SC), the annual conference on high-performance computing and communications, at which all aspects of supercomputing can be considered.

The conferences succeeded because of the individuals from many organizations volunteering their efforts.

The conference series is sponsored by:

 The conferences were initiated with the cooperation of the following organizations:

  • Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
  • National Science Foundation Supercomputer Centers (NSF Centers)
  • NASA-Ames Research Center ( NASA-ARC)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  • Supercomputing Research Center (SRC),
    [now Center for Computing Sciences (CCS)]

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The Charter of the Supercomputing Conferences Organization
establishes an organizational structure as follows:


CONFERENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC TRENDS

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Graph Line Units Plot Factor
Number of Conference Participants 1 0.01
Total Number of Exhibits 2 1.0
Exhibit Area - (total) 2 Sq. Ft. 0.001
Conference Budget 1 $ (thousands) 0.1
Gordon Bell Prize Winner Achieved Performance Level 3 GFLOPS 1.0
Supercomputer Peak Performance - (production computers) 4 GFLOPS 0.1
Transistor Count/Chip - (typical max) 5 (millions) 10.0
Internet Hosts 6 (thousands) 0.01
U.S. Computing, Information and Communications Program 7 $ (millions) - FY
starting 1 Oct 19xy		 0.1
Industry Volume - (computing and communications) 8 $ (billions) 0.1
Share of the Economy - (computing and communications) 8 % 10.0
Contribution to Economic Growth - (comp. and comm.) 8 % 10.0
Estimated

REFERENCES
1. IEEE Computer Society
2. DC Expositions, Inc.
3. Computer Magazine
4. Top 500 Supercomputer Sites
 5. Digital Equipment Corporation/Intel Corporation
6. Hobbes' Internet Timeline Copyright 1998 Robert H. Zakon
7. National Science and Technology Council
8. Department of Commerce, The Emerging Digital Economy

COMPUTERS IN USE ENTERING 1988

TMC
Cray Research
Meiko
Cray Research
Control Data
Multiflow
DEC

CM-200
Cray 2
CS/i860
X-MP
Cyber 205
TRACE 14/200
VAX 5500		 Hitachi
Fujitsu
NEC
IBM
Convex
AMT (ICL)
Sequent		 CS-820-80
VP-400E
SX-2
3090 VF
C1
DAP
Balance 2100
Note: In many instances, dates of computer debuts or milestones, performance levels, and dollar values are not well defined. Consequently, in some cases, displayed values may differ slightly from other compilations.


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