ASA History Timeline

The Alabama Legislature names the Alabama Supercomputer Center after Governor George Wallace and Governor Guy Hunt dedicated the Center in July.

Alabama Supercomputer Authority is authorized by the Alabama Legislature as a public corporation and is created to provide High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to academic institutions in Alabama.

Several Alabama High School Teachers attend the first supercomputer summer course in Huntsville. It was organized by Dr. John Ziebarth of UAH and Dr. Elizabeth French of ACHE.

Students of the teachers who attended the first supercomputer summer course present their year long supercomputer projects at the first Annual Alabama High Schools Supercomputing Expo.

The Alabama Supercomputer Authority and Boeing install Alabama's second Supercomputer, the nCUBE2 which used a massively parallel processing architecture.

Connected to the Internet (Information Superhighway). The Alabama Supercomputer Network was first connected to SURANet (Southern Universities Research Association) which was a precursor to the internet connection.