The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory S-1 project Stanford University
Starting in 1976 [check] a project to build a new supercomputer
for research at
Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory (LLL) was initiated by
Lowell Wood of the LLL O-group. A number of subcontracts, primarily for
design and support software were issued to Stanford's Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science departments.
These pages are to document the work done at Stanford and by
Stanford staff and students at LLL. It is motivated by plans to have
a relevant exhibit as part of the
historical
exhibits in the Stanford Gates Computer Science building, in
cooperation with the
Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. The
immediate trigger was a celebration of Lowell Wood's forthcoming 65th
birthday, hosted by Michael Farmwald in May 21st 2006 in Pescadero.
Please contribute any relevant information you have by sending email
to gio@cs.stanford.edu.
Stanford related participants
In alphabetical order, but very incomplete
- Jeff Barth (1976-1978) PI: Pascal, P-code,
now at ? < ? at >.
- John Beetem (1978-1980) ?,
now at ? < ? at >.
- Rodney Brooks (?) LISP,
now at MIT < ? at >.
- Fernando Castaneda (1977-?) UFORT Fortran Compiler,
now at ? < ? at >.
- Hon Wah Chin (1977-?) Amber operating system?,
now at ? < ? at >.
- Fred Chow (1977-?) Assembler?, UFORT Fortran Compiler,
Went to MIPS, SGI, now at Cognigine? < ? at >.
- Richard Gabriel (1977-?) Lisp.
Founded Lucid, now at ? < at >.
- Erik Gilbert (1977-?) P-code interpreter?,
now at CISCO <egilbert at cisco.com>.
- Ramez El-Masri (1977-?) Assembler?,
now at U Texas, Arlington <elmasri at cse.uta.edu>.
- Mike Farmwald (1977-?) Instruction set, Risc architecture. Went to FTL,
then MIPS, UICU, now at Rambus ? <mike at farmwald.com>.
- Brent Hailpern (1977-?) ?,
now At IBM Almaden Research < ? at >.
- John Hennessy (1977-?) ?,
now Stanford president ? < ? at >.
- Bruce Hitson (1977-?) ,
now at StartUpStreet < >.
- Arthur Keller (1977-?) loader and linker,
now UC Santa Cruz <Arthur at Kellers.com>.
- John McCarthy (1977-?) PI: operating systems?,
retired from Stanford CS <jmc at cs.stanford.edu>.
- Tom McWilliams (1977-?) SCALD Design software, founder ValidLogic, Pathscale,
now at Sun? <tom.mcwilliams at Sun.COM>.
- Peter Nye (1977-?) UFORT Fortran,
now at ? < ? at >.
- Jeff Rubin (1977-?) S-1 emulator, Assembler,
now at ? < ? at >.
- Dick Sites -- UC San Diego (1977-?) U-code, P-code Pascal?.
now at ? < ? at >.
- Danny Sleator (1977-?) UFort compiler?.
now at ? < ? at >.
- Curt Widdoes (1977-?) SCALD Design software?,
founded ValidLogic, 0-innovation, now at Mentor Graphics <cwiddoes at 0-in.com >.
- Gio Wiederhold (1977-1979) PI: software, compilers,
now retired from Stanford CS <gio at cs.stanford.edu>.
- Lowell Wood (1976-2006+) LLL PI: Inspiration and funding,
still at the LLL O group <lowellwood at comcast.net>.
A number of other participants came from the MIT AI-Lab
- Ted Anderson, Amber Operating System. Went to CMU, now at
IBM via Transarc.
- Jeff Broughton, now at Sun.
- Earl Killian, now part-time at Stanford.
-
Daniel Weinreb: Amber file-sharing System.
See also Mark Smotherman's list of participants.
Pictures of S-1 folk
mainly from a may 2006 party, more to come
Description and pointers to documents of the S-1
Overview:
The S-1 Multiprocessor Test and evaluation Facility; ;
NAVELEX, 1984.
Much more to come
- Rodney A. Brooks, Richard P. Gabriel, Guy L. Steele, Jr.: S-1 Common Lisp
Implementation; Conference on LISP and Functional Programming, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, pp. 108 - 113, 1982, ISBN:0-89791-082-6.
- Castaneda, Fernando, F. Chow, P. Nye, D. Sleator, and G.
Wiederhold: PCFORT, A FORTRAN to P-Code Translator;
Stanford CSL Technical Report 160 (160/CSL-TR-79-160.pdf)
not available; Stanford University, January 1979.
- Chow, Fred, Peter Nye, and Gio Wiederhold:
UFORT, A Fortran to
U-Code Translator; (pdf), Technical Report CS 160, January 1979,
CSL Technical Report No. 168 (168/CSL-TR-79-168.pdf),
Stanford University,
February 1980; .
- Correll, Steven. S-1 uniprocessor architecture (SMA-4). In The S-1 Project 1979 Annual Report, volume I, chapter 4. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California, 1979.
- Keller, Arthur and Gio Wiederhold: S-1 Intermediate Loader
Format and S-1 Linker; CSL Technical Note 147, Stanford University,
Jan.1979.
- Chow, Fred, Peter Nye, and Gio Wiederhold:
Mark Smotherman: Livermore S-1 Supercomputer, A Brief History, 2005.
Mark Smotherman: S-1 Supercomputer Alumni, 2005.
Pictures of the S-1