On 9/18/17, 3:02 PM, "Peter Allan" <petermal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Camiel, > > Nice to hear that you have the Convex C220 up and running. > > Regarding things to run on it, starting with LINPACK is probably a good idea. > However, in term of what they were actually used for back in the 1980's, I > know that they were popular with the radio astronomy community, starting with > the Convex C1. The package called AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System) > was the most popular way of processing data from multi-antenna telescopes like > the VLA in New Mexico. > > AIPS (written in Fortran) is now known as AIPS Classic, to distinguish it from > AIPS++ (written in C++) which was developed in the 1990's. There is plenty of > information about it on the internet. If you have any difficulty getting the > code, let me know as I might be able to help. > > AIPS is very portable; before the era of the mini-supers, it ran on a lot of > VAXen (yeah!!) amongst other things. > > Cheers > > Peter Allan I¹ll check that out. Code I have running on the C220 now includes: * FORTRAN code to solve Navier-Stokes equations for airflow over a wing or even a complete aircraft * Some electronics design software I found on one of the disks I have, including Spice, Anacad Eldo * Neurosim neural network simulator Camiel
