SIMD - Chronology

Chronology

Examples of SIMD supercomputers (not including vector processors):

• ILLIAC IV, circa 1974
• ICL Distributed Array Processor (DAP), circa 1974
• Burroughs Scientific Processor, circa 1976
• Geometric-Arithmetic Parallel Processor, from Martin Marietta, starting in 1981, continued at Lockheed Martin, then at Teranex and Silicon Optix
• Massively Parallel Processor (MPP), from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, circa 1983-1991
• Connection Machine, models 1 and 2 (CM-1 and CM-2), from Thinking Machines Corporation, circa 1985
• MasPar MP-1 and MP-2, circa 1987-1996
• Zephyr DC computer from Wavetracer, circa 1991
• Xplor, from Pyxsys, Inc., circa 2001.