 In the early 1990s, in addition to support from the National Science Foundation, the CTC received funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, New York State, IBM Corporation, SGI, and members of the center's Corporate Research Institute.The center's focus was on developing scalable parallel computing resources for its user community and applying their expertise in parallel algorithm development and optimization to a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.CAC and its predecessor CTC have achieved a number of firsts, including deploying the first IBM Scalable POWERparallel System SP2 supercomputer, deploying the first Dell supercomputer, installing the first parallel version of MATLAB (MultiMATLAB) designed with the MATLAB product, establishing the first financial solutions center for supercomputing, and designing and running the first parallel job scheduler for Windows.