Re: In the early 1980s, there were not many supercomputers available for United

According to this site, 

the four national supconductor centers (sponsored by  NSF, the National 
Science Foundation) are located as follows:


1) Cornell National Supercomputer Facility at Cornell University; 
2) 	National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of 
Illinois; 
3)	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University, 
University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse; 
4) 	San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San 
Diego.