The 1984 withdrawal announcement for the IBM 3838 Array Processor is still available at IBM's announcements Web site. The announcement number is 184-060.
I found a list of several other high-level software products that apparently supported the VFs, at least some of which could be used by high level languages: 1. MSC/NASTRAN from MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation and NASA Information on MSC/NASTRAN is still available here: http://www.mscsoftware.com 2. CAEDS which was developed by Structural Dynamics Research Corporation then sold by IBM See IBM announcement 292-635, for example. 3. ANSYS from Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc. Company is now known as ANSYS, Inc. (http://www.ansys.com) 4. FIDAP developed by Fluid Dynamics International, distributed/serviced by Boeing Here's some historical information: http://web.utk.edu/~mnewman/ibmguide18.html#Header_446 5. EASY5 from Boeing http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/easy5/ http://www.mscsoftware.com/Products/CAE-Tools/Easy5.aspx 6. IMSL Library from IMSL, Inc. http://www.roguewave.com/products/imsl-numerical-libraries.aspx IBM also offered Vector Facility Simulator software which provided instruction-level compatibility on machines that didn't have actual VF hardware. Of course, it was slower. I can't find too much information about the simulator, but in principle it would permit running VF software on System z machines. If possible, it would be very interesting to benchmark today's machines running the simulator against actual VF hardware. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
