The CDC 6600, introduced by the Control Data Corporation, usually gets the nod as the first supercomputer. Chiefly designed by Seymour Cray, the CDC 6600 boasted up to triple the throughput of the ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?
This Sh*t Is Cray Parallel Processing The first computer generally regarded as a supercomputer is the CDC 6600, designed by ...
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,941,015-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Hobby Tunneling What it’s about: An old-fashioned hole diggin’! By gar, it’s been a ...
The Colorado Springs-based supercomputer company founded in 1989 by Seymour Cray after he left Cray Research. Cray developed the Cray-3, an incredibly fast gallium arsenide-based computer that ran ...