Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized...
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bond to changes in interest rates Convex preferences, an individual's ordering of various outcomes Convex Computer, a former company that produced supercomputers...
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Algorithms that construct convex hulls of various objects have a broad range of applications in mathematics and computer science. In computational geometry...
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In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it. The convex hull may be defined...
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crescent shape, is not convex. The boundary of a convex set in the plane is always a convex curve. The intersection of all the convex sets that contain a...
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Convex optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently...
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Cray (redirect from Cray Computer Corp.)
market. The Convex Computer series, as well as a number of small-scale parallel machines from companies like Pyramid Technology and Alliant Computer Systems...
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constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers...
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In mathematics, a real-valued function is called convex if the line segment between any two distinct points on the graph of the function lies above or...
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workstations. In 1995, the company bought another computer manufacturer, Convex Computer, for $150 million. In 2000, HP spun off its early measurement, chemical...
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In December 1991, USENIX Secretary and Former Head of Software at Convex Computer, Rob Kolstad from University of Illinois, was hired and would take...
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Non-uniform memory access (category Computer memory)
architectures. They were developed commercially during the 1990s by Unisys, Convex Computer (later Hewlett-Packard), Honeywell Information Systems Italy (HISI)...
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Compaq (redirect from Compaq Computer Corporation)
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products...
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Kolstad, who led the development of BSD Unix for supercomputers at Convex Computer. Mach (kernel) Marshall Kirk McKusick (1999), "Twenty Years of Berkeley...
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Hewlett-Packard (redirect from The Computer is Personal Again)
Pavilion brand of personal computers in 1995. HP also grew through acquisitions: it bought Apollo Computer in 1989 and Convex Computer in 1995. In 1992, Young...
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Minisupercomputer (redirect from Mini super computer)
Jim Smith, U. Wisc) BBN Technologies (Acquired by Raytheon in 2009) Convex Computer (founded 1982 as Parsec; acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1995) Culler...
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HP Omen (category HP personal computers)
that was inherited by HP. The HP Victus is a line of mid-range gaming computers and laptops which replaced the Pavilion Gaming brand in 2021. Victus products...
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HP 9000 (redirect from Bobcat (computer))
2001. The S- and X-class were Convex Exemplar SPP2000 supercomputers rebadged after HP's acquisition of Convex Computer in 1995. The S-class was a single-node...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (category Computer companies of the United States)
Enterprise as a newly created company. HP Inc. retained the old HP's personal computer and printing business, as well as its stock-price history and original...
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Acquisitions 3Com 3PAR** Apollo Computer ArcSight† Aruba Networks** Autonomy† Bristol Technology Compaq Convex Computer Colorado Memory Systems EEsof†...
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Apollo Computer Inc. was an American technology corporation headquartered and founded in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1980 by William Poduska...
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Toshiba Satellite C series, of laptops Compaq C series, handheld computers Convex Computer C series of vector minisupercomputers Bombardier C-Series, a family...
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between Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services business unit and Computer Sciences Corporation. The company provided business-to-business IT services...
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Elxsi (category Computer companies established in 1979)
Valley, US, along with a host of competitors (Trilogy Systems, Sequent, Convex Computer). The Elxsi processor was an Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) design that...
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Acquisitions 3Com 3PAR** Apollo Computer ArcSight† Aruba Networks** Autonomy† Bristol Technology Compaq Convex Computer Colorado Memory Systems EEsof†...
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HP 300 (category Hewlett-Packard computers)
The HP 300 "Amigo" was a computer produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the late 1970s based loosely on the stack-based HP 3000, but with virtual memory...
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in front of each rider simulates a window to space with high-resolution computer-generated imagery. Mission: Space comprises four separate centrifuges,...
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Acquisitions 3Com 3PAR** Apollo Computer ArcSight† Aruba Networks** Autonomy† Bristol Technology Compaq Convex Computer Colorado Memory Systems EEsof†...
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Mostek (category Computer companies established in 1969)
by LJ Sevin funded Compaq Computers, Cyrix, Convex Computers and more.[citation needed] Bob Paluck started Convex Computers in 1982. Vin Prothro started...
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Acquisitions 3Com 3PAR** Apollo Computer ArcSight† Aruba Networks** Autonomy† Bristol Technology Compaq Convex Computer Colorado Memory Systems EEsof†...
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