Hitachi HITAC S-3000

Hitachi announced the HITAC S-3000 series of supercomputers in April 1992. The series ran from the S-3800 model, with ultra-fast vector processing, to the S-3600, with excellent cost effectiveness. The models covered a maximum vector performance range of nearly 100-fold, from 0.25 gigaFLOPS to 32 gigaFLOPS. The HITAC S-3000 series supported large amounts of high-speed extended memory, HIPPI and other extension units, as well as TCP/IP, FDDI, and UltraNet for open-source networks.