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Floating Point Systems

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Floating Point Systems Inc. (FPS) was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers. [1]

44 relations: American City Business Journals, Beaverton, Oregon, Celerity Computing, Clemson University, Coprocessor, Cornell University, Cray, Cray CS6400, Cray S-MP, Cryptography, Cydrome, Data General, Emitter-coupled logic, Floating-point arithmetic, FPS AP-120B, Glen Culler, Gordon Bell, IBM, Inmos, Intel i860, Kenneth G. Wilson, Minicomputer, Minisupercomputer, Multiflow, Multiprocessing, National Security Agency, Norm Winningstad, PARC (company), Physical chemistry, Reflection seismology, San Diego, Silicon Graphics, SPARC, Sun Enterprise, Sun Microsystems, Supercomputer, Tektronix, Tesseract, The Oregonian, Transistor–transistor logic, Transputer, Usenet, Vector processor, Weitek.

American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Celerity Computing

Celerity Computing Inc. was a San Diego, California vendor of Unix-based "supermini" computers.

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Clemson University

Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant and sea-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina.

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Coprocessor

A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU).

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cray

Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Cray CS6400

The Cray Superserver 6400, or CS6400, is a discontinued multiprocessor server computer system produced by Cray Research Superservers, Inc., a subsidiary of Cray Research, and launched in 1993.

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Cray S-MP

The Cray S-MP was a multiprocessor server computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 to 1993.

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Cryptography

Cryptography or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Cydrome

Cydrome (1984−1988) was a computer company established in San Jose of the Silicon Valley region in California.

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Data General

Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s.

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Emitter-coupled logic

In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family.

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Floating-point arithmetic

In computing, floating-point arithmetic is arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation so as to support a trade-off between range and precision.

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FPS AP-120B

The FPS AP-120B was a 38-bit, pipeline-oriented array processor manufactured by Floating Point Systems.

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Glen Culler

Glen Jacob Culler (July 7, 1927 – May 3, 2003) was a professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet.

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Gordon Bell

C.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Inmos

Inmos International plc (Trademark INMOS) and two operating subsidiaries, Inmos Limited (UK) and Inmos Corporation (US), was a British semiconductor company founded by Iann Barron, Richard Petritz, and Paul Schroeder in July 1978.

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Intel i860

The Intel i860 (also known as 80860) was a RISC microprocessor design introduced by Intel in 1989.

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Kenneth G. Wilson

Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics.

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Minicomputer

A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller computers that was developed in the mid-1960s and sold for much less than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.

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Minisupercomputer

Minisupercomputers constituted a short-lived class of computers that emerged in the mid-1980s, characterized by the combination of vector processing and small-scale multiprocessing.

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Multiflow

Multiflow Computer, Inc., founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style.

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Multiprocessing

Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence.

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Norm Winningstad

C.

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PARC (company)

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.

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Physical chemistry

Physical Chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, analytical dynamics and chemical equilibrium.

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Reflection seismology

Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth's subsurface from reflected seismic waves.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.

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SPARC

SPARC, for Scalable Processor Architecture, is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Sun Enterprise

Sun Enterprise is a range of UNIX server computers produced by Sun Microsystems from 1996 to 2001.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as "Tek", is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment.

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Tesseract

In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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Transistor–transistor logic

Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.

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Transputer

The transputer is a series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s, featuring integrated memory and serial communication links, intended for parallel computing.

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Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Vector processor

In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors, compared to scalar processors, whose instructions operate on single data items.

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Weitek

Weitek Corporation was a chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Point_Systems

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