PACS/PAX Computers


Blief History of PACS/PAX Computers

Project of PACS/PAX computers was started at Kyoto University in 1977 by Tsutomu Hoshino. The first and second machines PACS-9 and PAX-32 were made at Kyoto University in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and the project was moved to the University of Tsukuba in 1981.
At the university of Tsukuba, PAX-128, PAX-64J, QCDPAX, and CP-PACS were constructed. The latest machine CP-PACS was built in 1996, and was upgraded to have 2048 nodes.

Chronological table

1978 PACS-9 (0.01Mflops)
1980 PAX-32 (0.5Mflops)
1983 PAX-128 (4Mflops)
1984 PAX-64J (3.2Mflops)
1989 QCDPAX (14Gflops)
1996 CP-PACS (300GFLOPS)
1997 Upgrade of CP-PACS (600GFLOPS)
* flops : float(single precision) operations per second peak performance.
* FLOPS : float(double precision) operations per second peak performance.