Convex Computer

Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard (HP) PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995, HP bought the company. Exemplar machines were offered for sale by HP for some time, and Exemplar technology was used in HP's V-Class machines. Their first machine was the C1, released in 1985. The C2 was a crossbar-interconnected multiprocessor version of the C1, with up to four CPUs, released in 1988. In 1995, Hewlett-Packard bought Convex.