Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses.

By this time, even though Convex was the first vendor to ship a GaAs based product, they were losing money.

HP sold Convex Exemplar machines under the S-Class ( MP ) and X-Class ( CC-NUMA ) titles, and later incorporated some of Exemplar's technology into the V-Class machine, which was released running the HP-UX 11. 0 release instead of the SPP-UX version which was sold with the S-and X-Class products.

According to most former employees, Convex was a very fun place at which to work.

* Tom Christiansen of Perl fame worked at Convex in the Technical Assistance Center and then on a project called Convex Meta Series, which was an attempt to create cheap cluster computers.

* Frank Marshall who led Cisco Systems to great success in the 1990s was VP of engineering at Convex during its peak years.

The compiler was based on the Convex Fortran ( and C ) compiler.

In March 2002, HowStuffWorks was sold to the Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment and media company founded by Jeff Arnold, founder and former chief executive officer ( CEO ) of WebMD.

At this point, Rob Kolstad ( of the University of Illinois and Convex Computer Corporation ) was president of BSDI, and he would run the company until the close of the decade.

In 2004 Flexplay was sold to The Convex Group which also owned the Lidrock and HowStuffWorks brands.

In 2004 Flexplay was purchased by The Convex Group who also own the Lidrock and HowStuffWorks brands.

A narrower radiator shell was supported by the new louver style " Convex vee " grill.

A comprehensive and influential book in the subject, called Convex Polytopes, was published in 1967 by Branko Grünbaum.

* Convex Computer ( founded 1982 as Parsec ; acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1995 )

* Learning by Simulations – Concave and Convex Lenses

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

* 1976: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

However, the C3 and the Convex business model were overtaken by changes in the computer industry.

Convex had an unusually thorough interview process, which, for technical positions, included a grilling by a group of engineers.

Different versions and derivatives of SCI have been implemented and used in different applications by companies like Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Convex, Data General ( used cache controller and link controller chips from Dolphin Data General AViiON ), Sequent and Cray Research.

* Convex and Concave, a 1955 lithograph print by the artist M. C. Escher

* Convex Computer, a company that produced a number of vector supercomputers, bought by HP in 1995

Convex cloissoné is produced by overfilling each cloison, at the last firing.

Convex and Concave is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in March 1955.

Marshall founded the website HowStuffWorks. com in 1998 and ran the site until 2002, when he sold it to The Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment company owned by former Web MD CEO Jeff Arnold, for around $ 1 million.

Paluck left Mostek to work with Sevin-Rosen Partners and Convex Computer.

* Co-founder Steve Wallach is well known for his work at Data General, Convex, Convey Computer Corporation and other companies.

For some time, there were beer parties every Friday, and an annual Convex Beach Party ( where a truck load of sand would be dumped on the parking lot to simulate a beach in Richardson, Texas ).

Convex lenses produce an image of an object at infinity at their focus ; if the sun is imaged, much of the visible and infrared light incident on the lens is concentrated into the small image.

: Convex mirrors provide a wider field of view than flat mirrors, and are often used on vehicles, especially large trucks, to minimize blind spots.

Convex polytopes are equivalent to tilings of the sphere, while others may be tilings of other elliptic, flat or toroidal surfaces – see elliptic tiling and toroidal polyhedron.

* Convex: any line drawn through the polygon ( and not tangent to an edge or corner ) meets its boundary exactly twice.

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

Convex quadratic programming is a special case of the more general field of convex optimization.

* Rolf Schneider, Convex bodies: the Brunn-Minkowski theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

Convex 240 supercomputer.

In order to lower costs, the Convex designs were not as technologically aggressive as Cray's, and were based on more mainstream chip technology, attempting to make up for the loss in performance in other ways.

The machines ran a BSD version of Unix known initially as Convex Unix then later as ConvexOS due to trademark and licensing issues.

In 1994, Convex introduced an entirely new design, known as the Exemplar.

But the type of customers Convex attracted believed in Fortran and brute force rather than sophisticated technology.

Eventually, Convex established a working partnership with HP's hardware and software divisions.

In 1995, Hewlett-Packard bought Convex.

Convex lasted longer than most minisupercomputer companies, and to celebrate this and more so to remind themselves of the difficulties of the market, Convex had a graveyard of former competitor companies on its property.