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This first article of a series looks at the forces that have driven desktop supercomputing, beginning with the history of PC and supercomputing processors through the 1990s into the early 2000s. ... , hence the name T3D. It integrated from 32 to 2,048 processing elements (PEs), where each PE was a 64-bit DEC Alpha 21064 RISC chip. The chip had its own memory area, memory controller, and prefetch queue ... This first article of a series looks at the forces that have driven desktop supercomputing, beginning with the history of PC and supercomputing processors through the 1990s into the early 2000s.