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20 Cards in this Set
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The X-MP
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Designed by Steve Chen, used to watch the changing universe
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Von Neumann at the ias
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Von made 17 computers at different places for different purposes.
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The UNIVAC LARC
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Remington Rand’s first supercomputer simulated nuclear weapons
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Model 7030 operator console
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It was one of the first supercomputers and opened many doors to loads of hardware and software innovations
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The Father of Supercomputing
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Seymour Cray
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Seymour Cray
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He built the world’s fastest computers
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Cray Research, Inc.
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Cray Research, Inc. was the world leader in supercomputing for over 20 years
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The Cray-1 Supercomputer
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it was the world’s fastest computer from 1976 till 1982
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MANIAC computer
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different enough that they could not exchange with others
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Atlas Does the Heavy Lifting
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Atlas was the fastest computer in the world for a period of time
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CDC 6600’s Five Year Reign
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the 6600 had 400,000 transistors and over 100 miles of wiring
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The Building-Block Principle
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cray built a 6-bit prototype for the modular packaging and logic approach he envisioned for CDC’s first computers
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The Cray-2 and 3
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the Cray-2 supercomputer was smaller than the Cray-1, and ran 12 times faster
the Cray-2 took nine years to develop. Released in 1985, each of the 27 made sold for between $12M to $17M the Cray-3 was gonna be 10 times faster than the Cray-2 but he left... |
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Parallel Processing
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Parallel architectures harness thousands of processors working together
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The Connection Machine
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parallel processing is supported on making connections
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The Personal SuperComputer
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hypercube architecture shrinked the data travel by increasing near neighbor connections between processors
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Broadening the Supercomputer Market
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off-the-shelf hardware became more powerful in the 1990s
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Entering the Race
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most supercomputer markets failed
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The Fastest Brians for the Biggest Problems
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each era the definition for “super” in technology changes because technology is always changing
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The Roots of supercomputing
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each generation has their own type of supercomputer
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